Does he really have pouches? In his cheeks are they? I've never heard of that but then we don't have chipmunks. And by the sounds of it, we're lucky we don't!
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Does he really have pouches? In his cheeks are they? I've never heard of that but then we don't have chipmunks. And by the sounds of it, we're lucky we don't!
LannyC
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Chipmunk cheeks are quite elastic. They expand to hold food collected as the animal forages. When the chipmunk's cheeks are full, it returns to its den and the food is cached, to be consumed later. Since they don't hibernate, chipmunks rely on food caching to get through the winter.
A friend's clothes dryer stopped working properly. It was in her basement, with the usual exhaust duct hose leading up to a vent just above ground level. She removed the hose from the dryer to look for an obstruction...and a bushel of acorns poured out onto the basement floor! A chipmunk had been using the vent to cache food.
Spawn of the devil!
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A friend's clothes dryer stopped working properly. It was in her basement, with the usual exhaust duct hose leading up to a vent just above ground level. She removed the hose from the dryer to look for an obstruction...and a bushel of acorns poured out onto the basement floor! A chipmunk had been using the vent to cache food.
Spawn of the devil!
milliHelen: amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
Chipmunk cheeks are quite elastic. They expand to hold food collected as the animal forages. When the chipmunk's cheeks are full, it returns to its den and the food is cached, to be consumed later. Since they don't hibernate, chipmunks rely on food caching to get through the winter.
A friend's clothes dryer stopped working properly. It was in her basement, with the usual exhaust duct hose leading up to a vent just above ground level. She removed the hose from the dryer to look for an obstruction...and a bushel of acorns poured out onto the basement floor! A chipmunk had been using the vent to cache food.
Spawn of the devil!
milliHelen: amount of beauty required to launch one ship.
All very interesting and I've learned something new....thanks.
Your poor friend....but then that chipmunk lost his cache.
I have a friend who noticed sticky stuff coming out of her walls and ceiling and couldn't fathom what it was. Turned out it was honey, she had a huge bee hive inside them and had to have 2 walls and ceiling pulled out to get rid of it all. Fine mess that was!
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Oh my word...that would have been awful to deal with either the chipmunk issue or the beehive inside the wall! My girlfriend had the same situation when she bought her home. She kept hearing a scratching sound between the walls--until the wall cracked and the the bees flew in! What a nightmare that was! Goodness!!
Oh Sci...your shoulders must just ache after repeated shoveling day after day!! Do you even get a summer--does if last a week before Fall comes??
Oh my....that would have been just dreadful! All those bees!
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She was so bummed too...it was her first home purchase and she was so excited to get into the house and do some decorating! It set her back two weeks-having to remove and than repair the wall, ceiling and everything in between!
Her first house.....the poor thing to have that happen. Work you just don't need and all the expense too!
My friend was then inundated by ants. :O
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She did too!! How ironic that your friend had that as well...but it makes sense with the remnants of honey everywhere!
Richard Brown
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Your poor friends Ski and Leelai. Luckily the UK hasn't suffered too much from invasions of masonry bees. I've read stories in the press of the terrible damage they can do with buildings having to be demolished and rebuilt in extreme cases of invasion.
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Really annoying. We've had carpenter bees at one of our homes and have had to have them exterminated three times already from under the eaves. We heard horror stories and I'm worried that they've reappeared while we've spent months away.
dianne137
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wow and to think that we Buy mason bees here now to help with pollination because of the demise of our native bumbles and the infestation of mites in the European honey bees! I even leave the wasps alone because they have a season of necter gathering before they get mean and carnivorous.
Great pictures! Would this be a mated pair?
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