What Squirrels Eat by: Grace and Maddy

Squirrels are omnivores, which means they will eat almost anything!

Here are some of the things that squirrels eat: pumpkin, corn, wheat, leaves, rye, oats, caterpillars, barley, acorns (of course!), nuts and seeds, grasses, fruit, plant buds, and fungi.

Some will even eat insects, small snakes, and bird eggs! Yum, that looks like good food!

(For a squirrel any way…)

But what about the first part of their lives?

Well, they can't eat all of the “food” objects above, they depend on their mother`s milk for 6 weeks of their lives. Squirrels bury their nuts and return later.

They bury them because they need a safe place to store it until they are hungry.

Squirrels actually do not always remember where they buried their nuts, but when they forget, they are helping grow trees!

Red squirrels do not bury their food though, they store them in trees.

Did you know that squirrels start hunting for food early in the morning?