For the past two summers, I have spent time as the personal servant to a couple of (according to one scholarly source) "semi-fossorial sciurids" -- members of the squirrel family that spend some of ...

We're all for creating a home for wildlife when gardening, but while you might want to encourage seemingly cute critters like chipmunks into your backyard, they can actually be surprisingly ...

If you’ve ever found your tulips dug up or your petunias mysteriously missing petals, there’s a good chance some furry little foragers have made a snack out of your hard work. Squirrel and chipmunk ...

With writer Sue Pike away, this is a reprised edition of Nature News from August 2023. I put up my bird feeders last week and started thinking about what to do about the squirrels that usually take ...