Posted on 09/16/2018 10:36:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai
There’s a bumper crop of squirrels in New England, and the frenetic critters are frustrating farmers by chomping their way through apple orchards, pumpkin patches and corn fields.
The varmints are fattening themselves for winter while destroying the crops with bite marks.
Robert Randall, who has a 60-acre orchard in Standish, Maine, said he’s never seen anything like it.
“They’re eating the pumpkins. They’re eating the apples. They’re raising some hell this year. It’s the worst I’ve ever seen,” he said.
Evidence of the squirrel population explosion is plain to see along New England’s highways, where the critters are becoming roadkill.
Last year, there was a bumper crop of acorns and other food that contributed to a larger-than-normal squirrel population this summer across the region, said Rob Calvert, wildlife biologist from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department.
This summer, there’s not as much food, so the squirrels are looking for nutrition wherever they can find it, including farms, Calvert said. …
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Cool, Thank You.
Same here in CT. Mentioned to the wife that there seems to be a whole lot more dead squirrels on the road.
I know they can’t hear it but I will yell “don’t do it” because just like you I won’t brake either.
I have the Gamo Whisper Cat.
With a .177 round, it will explode a squirrels’ head and easily kill another squirrel standing behind it.
It is not quiet. That part was false advertising.
Your welcome! And his name was poops before he took the car ride.
Dangerous to put the words “squirrel” and “nuts” in the same title...
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