This hour, an appreciation of fluffy-tailed, seed- and nut-hoarding, sometimes nuisancey, sometimes shockingly industrious … ...

A motion-activated sprinkler system will not only keep your grass and plants watered, it can keep those pesky squirrels out ...

Painting small rocks to look like strawberries is a good way to deter birds and squirrels from munching on your garden fruit.

Little Grey Squirrel re-emerges after his long rest, but can't remember where he hid his nuts. Will his friends be able to ...

California ground squirrels are as commonplace as the seeds, acorns, and grains they’re often seen nibbling. Yet, scientists ...

But they will also dig up tulip bulbs and eat them. Article continues below "They love apples, squash and sweet corn and collect masses of acorns, conkers and nuts. Why not feed the squirrels with a ...

Martha Stewart makes sure three orphaned baby squirrels found in a fallen tree on her property are properly cared for and ...

Inside the Secret Lives of Squirrels and Their Half-Eaten Acorns Learn about the eating habits of tree squirrels Michael A. Steele and John L. Koprowski May 22, 2025 ...

Flying squirrels make a round oval hole in the acorn when they probe for nutmeat and beetle larvae, unlike other rodents that completely destroy acorns. “They make a smooth cut with no jagged ...

Until now, the California ground squirrel (Otospermophilus beecheyi) had been described as an animal that ate mostly acorns and grass seeds. They’ve been observed eating bark, flowers, leaves ...

These squirrels eat nuts in the fall and winter and store nuts in nests, cracks, cavities and tree forks, caches with up to 15,000 nuts in a season.

Red squirrels in the UK eat a variety of food, depending on where they live. In northern Scotland, red squirrels almost exclusively eat pine cone seeds which they extract by gnawing away the cone ...