Chipmunks
In most home landscapes, the chipmunk is not going to be considered a pest, but rather a cute little member of the family. It is only when the chipmunk population gets too numerous and when damage to your plants is obviously caused by the critters that they shift their status from family to pest.
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Therefore we suggest that your strategy in dealing with chipmunks should be to reduce the current population to a level where you can again live together on the same property in harmony. We believe that aggravating enough chipmunks using multiple repellents is preferable to killing them. But the choice is yours. To aggravate them you need to insult three or more of their basic senses (taste, smell, sight, sound, etc.) changing the target sense every two or three weeks. If for three weeks they are hit with a bad smell repellent, and then two weeks later, just as they are getting used to the smell you hit them with a bad taste repellent, they can become aggravated. Alternate taste and smell, or go with taste, smell, and a repellent with a burning sensation.
I like Chipmunks because they are cute, energetic members of the rodent family. It's fun to watch them race across the yard or stuff their cheeks with peanuts.
What Do Chipmunks Eat?
Mostly Nuts, But Other Things Too
I've seen chipmunks stuffing even green
strawberries into their cheeks. They run out of my strawberry patch with
their cheeks full and leave none for me.
Strawberry Delight by KarenHullArt
Strawberry Delight by KarenHullArt
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1acorns, peanuts, peanut butter, walnuts, almonds
Chipmunk 'Got Nuts?' magnet by scenicimpressions -
2strawberries, grapes, apples (mine don't care for bananas or watermelon)
I LoveApples by BarbaraZuz -
3seeds like sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds
"Thank You" Chippy the Chipmunk Postcard by KELLBELL535
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