'Property-wise, they can tunnel through lawns and garden beds and damage your drip lines searching for water. In the garden, ...

Ground and tree squirrels do not mate, although I suppose that physically, they could. For one, they don’t really like each other. And two, there are a plenty of fish in the ocean, ...

California ground squirrels are uglier and more obnoxious than the tree squirrels that I grew up with in New York. They are called “rats with bushy tails” for good reason.

Our fence was 5 to 6 feet tall, but ground squirrels also climb, so we added a battery operated shock wire to the top of the fence. We’ve since moved locations, but we have the same set-up.

California ground squirrels are uglier and more obnoxious than the tree squirrels that I grew up with in New York. They are called “rats with bushy tails” for good reason.

Franklin's ground squirrels are larger than other ground squirrels, about the size of a common gray tree squirrel, but their heads and snouts are flatter and ears are smaller and set lower. Their ...

Ground squirrels generally live on the ground or in burrows, in contrast with British tree squirrels, such as the red and grey, which make their homes in trees. Tree squirrels have large bushy tails, ...

So the 13-lined ground squirrel I had spotted last spring was not that unusual. As to chipmunks, Schooley emailed, “I am not aware of any recent monitoring of chipmunks in Illinois.

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