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It can be incredibly frustrating to find holes popping up in your nice, tidy lawn. But who's the culprit? Squirrels or chipmunks? And what can be done about it?
The Air Force said "subject matters experts" are on the case and preparing to blunt the invasion by Richardson ground squirrels.
The City of Winnipeg campaign to kill ground squirrels, which was scheduled to begin on Tuesday and continue until fall in eight parks and community centre fields, has been put on hold.
Oh, and roughly 100 ground squirrels running across the lawn, and occasionally, directly toward you. It almost looks like a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, just furrier.
Editor's note: This story has been corrected to reflect the problem rodents in the Rawlins Cemetery are ground squirrels, not prairie dogs. Rawlins residents are fed up with a colony of ground ...
The city’s existing method of gassing the ground squirrels in their dens with carbon monoxide every two weeks is mostly ineffective because the tunnels have multiple openings, allowing gas to ...
The city will target ground squirrels in some public parks next month, saying the holes they dig destroy fields and and pose safety hazards for people and pets. The squirrel management program was ...
California ground squirrels (Otospermophilus beecheyi), on most days, have a plant-forward diet. They have also been known to eat meat such as bird eggs, hatchlings, insects, or each other on occasion ...
While it was included in Belarus’ Red Data Book, until recently, it was thought that no colonies survived. Since 1960-s, Belarus’ spotted souslik population has declined by 90%. Speckled ground ...
California ground squirrels of all ages and genders were seen hunting, eating and competing over vole at a local park between June 10 and July 30, but the "carnivorous behavior" peaked during the ...