FOOD TREES

Trees and shrubs providing food for squirrels include the following. Entries marked with an * indicate primary food sources. Source varies by species and location.

apple, arbor vitae, ash, basswood, beech*, birch, bittersweet, black locust, black walnut*, blackberry, blackgum, blueberry, buckeye, butternut, cherry, chestnut, cranberry, currants, dogwood, douglas fir*, elderberry, elm*, fir*, flowering dogwood, grape, hawthorne, hazelnut, hemlock*, hickory*, hornbeam, huckleberry, incense cedar, kinnikinnick, maple*, mockernut, mountain ash, mulberry, oak*, osage-orange, pear, pecan, pine*, raspberry, salal, sedge, serviceberry*, spruce*, sweetgum, sycamore, tulip tree

Favorite Foods

Red Squirrel - tree sap (maple, birch), seeds, nuts, flowers, buds, berries, lichen, carrion, insects, snails, birds' eggs, nestling birds, fungi

Eastern Gray Squirrel - acorns, hickory nuts, buds, twigs, seeds, insects, nestling birds

Western Gray Squirrel - acorns, pine cones, buds, flowers, fungi birds' eggs, nestling birds

Fox Squirrel - tree sap, inner tree bark (maple, elm), buds, twigs osage orange, fungi, nuts, seeds, acorns, field and sweet corn

Douglas Squirrel - pine cones, nuts, seeds, berries, grapes, fungi

Northern Flying Squirrel - nuts, seeds, berries, buds, fungi, carrion, insects, lichens, seeds, flowers, fruits, truffles, tree sap (maple)

Southern Flying Squirrel - nuts, seeds, berries, buds, fungi, carrion, insects

Albert's Squirrel - pine cones (predominately from Ponderosa Pine), pinyon seeds, nuts, berries, inner bark (cambrium), twigs, buds, flowers, pollen, fungi, carrion