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Squirrels' stash of winter walnuts causes car chaos

WinniWoman

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Thant is something else! A big one!

We, too, have had critter stashesin our car and it has cost us money. This is what happens when we park our cars outside instead of the garage. Now in the house we are living at right now- we have to leave them out and I worry about stuff like this.
 

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Sounds liked in that neck of the woods, it is going to a very cold winter.
That is one scary photo. LOL.:doh:
 

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We had a similar thing happen. A few years ago we returned from our annual fall vacation in our van. The next day DH went to start our car and it would turn over but not run. He opened the hood and saw a maple key sticking out of the air box. He opened the airbox to discover it was jammed packed with maple keys! After cleaning all of them out the car started and ran just fine. DH then decided to check our old pick-up truck and also found it's air cleaner packed with maple keys. I guess there were some hungry squirrels that winter. Now he regularly checks our 4 vehicles when they haven't been run for a few days.


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While there is nothing like a single spot like in the photo, we have a neighbor who has hickory nuts stashed in everything in his outbuilding/garage. Some throughout his boat, his camper, under the hood of his truck. Chipmunks are the issue in his case. There is nothing he can do about. He just continually empty things throughout his outbuilding all fall.
 

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We had to take a car in once because of a burning smell. Mice in our garage (remnants of a poorly executed science fair project, lol) had taken dog kibble and stashed in somewhere in the engine. I can't remember where it was but it made the failed science fair project and even bigger problem then it had been before. As I recall it took a good 6 months of diligent trapping to get rid of those mice!
 

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Well, there's a term I've never heard, "maple key". Looked it up and now I know!
I had to look them up too. I have seen something similar over the years, but I think that they are from Sycamore trees around here. I always wondered what they were.
 

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Well, there's a term I've never heard, "maple key". Looked it up and now I know!

Lots of them up here in Canada, the land of the Maple Leaf! :wave:


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A very timely story as we are right in the middle of the walnut harvest here in California. If we run out of storage options, I'll ask the squirrels for some help :)
 

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Maple keys - new to me. We called them copters or helicopters on my boulevard in Minneapolis.
 

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Maple keys - they are called helicopters in our area too. I didn't even know the squirrels liked/ate them! The trees were so full of them this spring that it gave the appearance of autumn in our back yard because they wre red. I saw this squirrel stash on the internet today too.....poor guys, they worked really hard to forage all of those!

My neighbor once had a mouse problem. She pulled her ski boots out of her basement one winter and they were filled with dog kibble.
 
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