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. ADVERTISEMENTRobert Randall, who has a 60-acre orchard in Standish, Maine, said he’s never seen anything like it. This summer, there’s not as much food, so the squirrels are looking for nutrition wherever they can find it, including farms, Calvert said. In the past, he said, squirrels have sometimes nibbled on apples that had fallen to the ground. The good news for farmers is that boom years for both acorns and squirrels are uncommon.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 16, 2018 23:03 UTC