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Originally Posted by mg2107
We also had an attic full of flying squirrels. They sure are cute but once they get in they will do a number on your house. They are very prolific as well.
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1) There's no more damaging critter to over-winter in your place than a red squirrel, like my neighbors did.
Much more so, if they don't survive the winter in your place!
2) Critters
other than red squirrels get a bad rap from "reds".
Chew-mark evidence on your personal items that measure 3/16" across are likely red squirrel damage. Red squirrels will make nests using mostly dead leaves outside, but any fabric left outside is sure to get "sampled" at minimum. One unscrewed a cap (with his teeth) on a bottle of bird seed I'd left outdoors!
Mice, on the other hand, leave tiny toothmarks, and will shred stuff into a fibrous, messy, nest—and stink to high-heavens!
3) I'd no sooner shut off the computer and picked up a copy of
Science Weekly magazine, and discovered this article showing that the ancestor of today's flying squirrel shared Planet Earth with the earliest of birds—including our own Winnipesaukee loon!
Excerpt:
From fossil remains, it is known that this ancestor-guy (below) had the sharp teeth necessary for his diet of insects, and a heavy tail—rather than the "feathery" tail of modern flying squirrels.