In this paper we stochastically perturb the delay Lotka–Volterra model ẋ(t)= diag(x1(t), . . . , xn(t))[A(x(t)− x̄)+B(x(t − τ )− x̄)] into the stochastic delay differential equation (SDDE) dx(t)= diag(x1(t), . . . , xn(t)){[A(x(t)− x̄)+B(x(t − τ )− x̄)]dt + σ (x(t)− x̄)dw(t)}. The main aim is to reveal the effects of environmental noise on the delay Lotka–Volterra model. Our results can essentially ...