Robert Randall, who has a 60-acre orchard in Standish, Maine, said he’s never seen anything like it. Evidence of the squirrel population explosion is plain to see along New England’s highways, where the critters are becoming roadkill. This summer, there’s not as much food, so the squirrels are looking for nutrition wherever they can find it, including farms, Calvert said. You see squirrel tails everywhere,” said Greg Sweetser, who has a boutique apple orchard in Cumberland Center, Maine. The good news for farmers is that boom years for both acorns and squirrels are uncommon.

Source: National Post September 16, 2018 13:18 UTC