Squirrels are more likely to steal your pepper produce than they are to eat your pepper plants. However, squirrels do not like capsaicin (the compound that makes peppers spicy), so if you are growing spicy peppers, squirrels will be less likely to eat your pepper plants. 6 февр. 2021 г.
Does chili pepper keep squirrels away?
Quick answer is: Yes, cayenne pepper keeps squirrels away! Just mix the cayenne pepper into your birdseed mix, and squirrels will surely run away the first time they taste it. Why?
What animal eats chili peppers?
A new study shows that tree shrews are the only known non-human mammal to deliberately seek out spicy food. Can you eat as many chili peppers as a Chinese tree shrew? Probably not. A recent study found that these tree shrews are the only mammal aside from humans known to deliberately seek out spicy foods.
Do squirrels eat hot pepper?
Squirrels do not like the smell or taste of capsaicin, which is the thing that gives hot peppers their heat. Mixing the dried powder of hot peppers in with your seed should do the trick.
Can squirrels eat spicy food?
Hot stuff: The active ingredient in hot peppers, capsaicin, can be found as an additive in some birdseed. Birds don't react to capsaicin the way mammals do so it does them no harm. But when squirrels eat the treated seed, it irritates their mouths making them less likely to eat more.
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