Roger Still

Votes: 9209

Why do squirrels hide their food?

So other squirrels don’t get it

To eat later

Believe it or not, some trees actually have to have their seeds/nuts buried to germinate properly. and squirrels sometimes forget where their stash is. The squirrel’s loss is the tree’s gain.

Stephanie Jacklin

Votes: 3645

What do squirrels eat?

From observation of the squirrels in my garden:

Squirrels like:

Nuts, any

Bulbs, the more expensive the better

Figs, the day before you intend to pick them

Toast, buttered, an entire piece, from goodness knows where, preferably held in both paws and eaten on the windowsill while watching a human try to exercise. You try doing lunges while being observed by a squirrel eating toast.

Squirrels do not like:

Radishes

I watched a squirrel furtively pull a radish out of the earth, take a bite, recoil, and throw it across the garden in disgust. What goes around, comes around, squirrel. That’s for the lunges.

MarkIXc

Votes: 1330

Do squirrels eat their own nuts?

I love it when children come onto this site and ask “questions”. I bet you laughed a lot when you posted this. Truly sad.

K.A. Green-Wall

Votes: 7819

What does a black squirrel eat?

Seeds, eggs, buds, and roots. Black squirrels are not a distinct species; they are a pigment mutation of gray or fox squirrels.

Steve Heard

Votes: 6179

Do raccoons eat squirrels?

A raccoon just isn’t fast enough to catch an alert squirrel. One in my back yard developed a successful hunting tactic, though. This raccoon stalks a sleeping squirrel in a pine tree around 3:00AM. When engaging in mortal combat lots of noise and small branches emanate from the pine tree, followed by a deceased squirrel a minute or two later. The raccoon then climbs down the trunk head first to retrieve his dinner. After observing this twice my wife claims she will never nap in the back yard again.

David King

Votes: 3189

What eats squirrels?

When I was young, I grew up on a farm in Missouri surrounded by great forest lands. We commonly hunted and ate squirrels, along with almost any other small game that was in season from rabbits to raccoons to groundhogs. We also hunted pheasants, doves, quail, geese, and fished for almost anything that swam. Squirrels were good tasting but had very tough hide and were a major chore to dress out. We used to joke we expended more calories skinning them than we got from eating them. As was typical back then, they were usually fried like chicken.

Steve Horton

Votes: 5945

Do copperheads eat squirrels?

Most of the copperheads I’ve seen weren’t big enough to swallow a full grown squirrel, but they do subsist mainly on rodents and squirrels are rodents, so if a big enough copperhead caught a squirrel on the ground, he’d eat him. I doubt it happens real often, but I don’t doubt it happens.

Rex Trulove

Votes: 1081

What predators eat squirrels?

Squirrels and mice are tremendously important to many predators and often the population of those predators will rise and fall with the population of mice. The number of predators that eat squirrels is quite large. Here are just some of those that will eat squirrels if they have the chance:

Hawks, owls, eagles, magpies, ravens, shrikes, skunks, weasels, martens, minks, badgers, wolverines, foxes, coyotes, wolves, bobcats, lynxes, cougars, black-footed ferrets, black and grizzly bears, domesticated cats and dogs, snakes of many sorts, possums, and humans. This is by no means a complete list. How

Karen M Shelton

Votes: 2537

Is it bad to feed squirrels?

Is it bad to feed squirrels?

Yes, it can be very bad for a number of reasons. The cost of feeding squirrels can eventually be prohibitive. And not just the financial costs.

Photo by Dušan veverkolog on Unsplash

My late husband loved to feed animals of all kinds. I always admired him for his great love of small creatures and need to nurture them in any way he could.

Unfortunately, I learned some hard lessons about feeding wild animals after his passing.

Large Backyard With A Pool And Bird Feeders

In the former house we owned before his death, we had a lovely large backyard. It was filled with large t

Miguel Valdespino

Votes: 3522

Why do squirrels eat nuts?

Squirrels actually have quite a varied diet. Though they primarily eat plants they are omnivores and will eat insects, eggs, and even small animals. They will eat fungi, fruits and greens in addition to nuts.

But squirrels are associated with nuts because nuts store well. When food is plentiful, they often hide or bury nuts so that they can survive winter or other lean times. Some species of squirrels hibernate, and the high fat content of many nuts helps them gain weight to survive their hibernation.

Brian Fey

Votes: 911

Do squirrels eat mushrooms?

Yes they do. I just saw one carry a mushroom half way up a tree and then begin eating it with gusto!