Mating 2-3 times per year with 3-5 young per litter
Superb climbers
Scatter cache food rather than making a single cache
Live in leaf nests high in trees and/or tree crevices.
Sign
small inch-wide holes created in turf, wood mulch when squirrels
bury or retrieve nuts and other stored food items.
make noises when upset that sounds like "chrr"
Tracks are paired with hind feet preceding front feet.
Tracks may lead to base of tree. Tracks are smaller than cottontail rabbit.
Damage
gnaw and strip bark, from upper branches of trees. These are
usually 1/2 inch wide and three to six
inches long. Other small limbs branches
of one- to two-feet in length and 1/4 to 1/2 inch diameter are clipped and
dropped to the ground. This activity usually occurs in winter. See photo at
right. Photo by Dallas Virchow
Scientific Name
inches long. Other small limbs branches
of one- to two-feet in length and 1/4 to 1/2 inch diameter are clipped and
dropped to the ground. This activity usually occurs in winter. See photo at
right. Photo by Dallas Virchow
--Mississippi State
Univ.