What Animals Eat Pumpkins Plants

If you have a pumpkin patch and a deer problem you will need to protect your pumpkins from the deer.

What animals eat pumpkins plants. Some of the animals that eat pumpkins are raccoons chimpanzees elephants and goats. We cant convince the deer to read the lists. Rabbits and deer other animals that enjoy pumpkins and pumpkin plants are mice and moles chipmunks and squirrels and the greatest intruder of all woodchucks.

Pheasants ForeverWhat started out with the pumpkins was I had planted them to give away to a group one year but found by the end of fall that the white tail deer had eaten most of them sonow since its one of their favorite things to eat I have decided to just plant them for the deer. Deer are notorious for being able to decimate a garden. Yes squirrels can get drunk too.

Spray your vines with a mild pesticide and they should disappear. Deer dont like melon plants but they like many other animals they have. And for some of us the bushy tailed rats squirrels like to hang out after eating our plants find other things to gnaw on such as house soffit anything they can eat until theyve eaten their way thru moved into our attics.

Like rats though they wont go ahead and eat a whole pumpkin. Rabbits will not even dig up carrots though they will eat them if another creature has already uprooted them. Many livestock such as horses cattle sheep and goats find them palatable.

If your curious to who or what else will eat pumpkins Look no further than squirrels birds rabbits and even porcupines. Just as you are ready to harvest your fruit you find they have gnawed through your pumpkin to extract the seeds. These animals can easily climb over the fence.

Also even if there are secured wires that wrap your pumpkin woodchucks can easily destroy them. We have over 5 acres of land and our garden is actually about 200 feet from. Come fall squirrels will be tempted to eat just about anything that is still in your garden.