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[Alan]

In the past, I've used a product called "Squirrel Butter" in my home-bound traps. It has worked well over the last few years. Of recent, it has failed miserably! I've tried pecans (both whole and cracked open), peanuts with and without the shell both raw and roasted, as well as apple and other pomes. Yet, the local population of squirrels have not found these food wholesome.

Question: Other than just hunting them around feeding time (I can't always), baiting and trapping is a good alternative. If this is you, what attractants do you use?

 

[Florida_Man]

Mine love sunflower. Ive put hulled kernels in the food processor and made chucky butter of of it. Then I will mix some regular sunflower seeds with it. The processed really helps the scent get in the air. I guess you can buy sunflower butter, but the stuff I saw was expensive.

They also go crazy for tree nuts, especially if you can find something native to your area they already forage. The theory seems good that they key in on their natural food.

People say fruit, it has never worked for me. My buddy says they eat his mangos on his tree, that’s my next attempt if he’ll give me some mango that he’s not going to eat.

 

[Hateful McNasty]

Plain shelled corn or on the cob . ( I mean who don't like corn on the cob ,right?)
Just grab a sack of deer corn at feed store or Walmart ,tractor , ... Pick a spot and broadcast around a small ground area. They'll find it then start Inviting there friends over for snacks

Maybe build a simple wood box needed to nail on a tree filled with shelled corn

 

[Florida_Man]

Plain shelled corn or on the cob . ( I mean who don't like corn on the cob ,right?)
Just grab a sack of deer corn at feed store or Walmart ,tractor , ... Pick a spot and broadcast around a small ground area. They'll find it then start Inviting there friends over for snacks

Maybe build a simple wood box needed to nail on a tree filled with shelled corn

My coastal tree rats don’t know corn is food

 

[Hateful McNasty]

My coastal tree rats don’t know corn is food

Must not be squirrel ..lol

 

[GHairgunner]

Peanut butter with cut apple slices. Work nicely...............

 

[Dogowski]

Peanut butter with cut apple slices. Work nicely...............

Sounds tasty to me! I must be part squirrel. Lol

 

[PasadenaMike]

Just peanut butter

 

[Chief55]

They go into my chicken coop and bird feeders every day to eat the chicken scratch feed which is basically just cracked corn and Milo but yes, I agree they will go for the peanut butter and that is probably best if you are trapping them.

 

[Farmplinker2]

My coastal tree rats don’t know corn is food

Just wait out over a corn field that's been harvested. You'll eventually see an ear of corn moving through the field, with a tree rat under it.

 

[Florida_Man]

Just wait out over a corn field that's been harvested. You'll eventually see an ear of corn moving through the field, with a tree rat under it.

No corn fields within a couple hundred miles of me. Do they like sugarcane?

 

[Farmplinker2]

No corn fields within a couple hundred miles of me. Do they like sugarcane?

Put in a corn food plot, that should lure them in!