Apodemus sylvaticus

Family: MuridaeGenus: Apodemusheimisch in Deutschland

heimisch in Deutschland

native_regions-Cache · 85 %

🌿

Plants

Food sources

🔗

Interactions

documented

About this species

A small rodent whose presence is recorded in Great Britain.

Ecological network

Click to highlight connections · Click again to open species page

Netzwerk wird geladen...

Prey / FoodPlant-based food

Annual cycle

Females can produce around 3.8 litters in a year, each after a gestation of roughly 23 days.

Merkmale

Körper

Body length

11.8755 cm

Weight

23.4 g

Max. Lebensalter

6.325 Jahre

Fortpflanzung

Wurfgröße / Gelege

5.18, 3.8× pro Jahr

Tragezeit

23.43572 Tage

Geschlechtsreife

~0.2 Jahre

Ernährung & Verhalten

40% Pflanzen20% Samen20% Früchte20% Wirbellose

Streifgebiet

~0.007 km²

Scientific profile

Apodemus sylvaticus is a small rodent with a typical adult body mass of 23.4 grams and a body length of 11.9 centimetres. Its diet comprises roughly 40% other plant material, 20% seeds, 20% fruit and 20% invertebrates, indicating a broadly omnivorous feeding habit. The species occupies a home range of approximately 0.007 square kilometres. The maximum recorded lifespan is 6.3 years, and females may give birth to several litters annually, with an average of 3.8 litters per year and a gestation period of about 23 days.

Food sources

33 documented food sources

Plantago major subsp. majorZea maysAvena fatuaTrisetum flavescens Mercurialis perennis Vicia sepiumSinapis arvensis subsp. arvensisFraxinus excelsior subsp. excelsiorQuercus robur Glechoma hederacea Corylus avellana Stachys sylvaticaBrassica napus subsp. napusTriticum aestivumPteridium aquilinum subsp. pinetorumFragaria vesca Primula vulgaris Prunus spinosa Sanicula europaeaSambucus nigraLamium purpureum var. incisumCrataegus monogyna Rubus fruticosusAcer campestreAcer pseudoplatanus Fallopia convolvulusGeranium robertianum var. maritimumHyacinthoides non-scripta Geranium dissectum Trifolium pratense Sherardia arvensis stellaria gramineaMalus domestica

Proven food sources

50 documented prey and food sources (GloBI)

Rumex palustrisChenopodium pratericolaMyotis daubentoniiBembecia albanensisBembecia scopigeraParanthrene insolitaBembecia uroceriformisChamaesphecia leucopsiformisSynanthedon cephiformisSynanthedon flaviventrisEusphecia melanocephalaSesia bembeciformisSynanthedon andrenaeformisSynanthedon conopiformisSynanthedon loranthiSynanthedon soffneriSynanthedon stomoxiformisSynanthedon polarisSynanthedon culiciformisChamaesphecia aerifronsBembecia ichneumoniformisPyropteron affinisChamaesphecia empiformisSynanthedon spuleriPennisetia hylaeiformisChamaesphecia dumontiPyropteron muscaeformisSynanthedon formicaeformisAnimaliaCepaea nemoralisPyropteron chrysidiformisSynanthedon spheciformisSynanthedon vespiformisSynanthedon myopaeformisChiropteraAcariBrueelia muniaBrueelia perisoreusBrueelia eustigmaPhilopterus pleschankaeBrueelia stramineaEchinophilopterus emersoniEulinognathus hilliGoniodes minorNeopsittaconirmus hoogstraaliMegabothris walkeriMulcticola minutusAmphipsylla rossicaCtenophthalmus solutusCtenophthalmus uncinatus

Source: Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) — Poelen et al. (2014), CC BY

Sources & Data Origin

•TetrapodTraits — CC BY 4.0TetrapodTraits contributors (v2.0.1).

•TraitCH — CC BY 4.0TraitCH 2.0 contributors; imported as source-preserving NaturKompass taxon evidence.

•Interaktionsdaten via GloBI (CC-BY 4.0)

•Neff et al. (2025) — Swiss Moth Traits, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14506883 (CC BY)

•GBIF Backbone Taxonomy — GBIF Secretariat (2024), DOI: 10.15468/39omei (CC BY 4.0)

All data is licensed under CC BY 4.0, CC0, or compatible terms. Attribution according to license conditions. Full sources overview →