What Kind Of Fruit Do Raccoons Eat?

Raccoons are very fond of older fruit that has fallen from the tree, while they are great climbers they are fundamentally easy-going animals and like to take a lot of naps. So putting in the effort is for the baby season, otherwise, they want food that is easy to access and they want a lot of it. Raccoons are normally carnivores but sometimes food can get scarce this is mostly in the winter when raccoons must subsist off roots and berries and long-dead animals. Something that can give them raccoon roundworm, a statistic that is going up in younger raccoons which means food is getting scarce in the wild and urban raccoons will become more plentiful and more dangerous as time goes on. If you are worried about raccoons, rodents or other pests coming for your fruit trees then there is a lot you can do to stop it. Wrapping the tree in the winter is a great thing to do to stop wild animals from getting at it. And if you take the fruit on it seriously as a food item for your family then pick all the fruit that is ripe every day and don’t let anything hit the ground. This will make it much safer, keep more animals away from your property and will give your family healthy freshly picked fruit to eat. Make sure to wash it very well and inspect it for worms and bugs. A dark hole in the fruit is a bad sign.

Raccoons on a porch — If you have raccoons on your property eating things they normally don’t eat it is likely because they are young and don’t have easy access to food like older well established raccoons. Raccoons are competitive and during baby season male raccoons will actually find and kill baby raccoons to increase their own babies’ survivability.

Now if you have raccoons on your property eating your fruit, berries or garden vegetables then you should do a good job of covering them with galvanized steel mesh. Cover the garden and trench the mesh down one foot down and six inches out. This will prevent burrowing animals like gophers and moles from pulling your vegetables out of the ground. This is not all. Garbage and detritus on your property like old wood and a broken shed is a place for wild animals and rodents to live while they feed off your property. Taking precautions and wrapping and sealing off access to your garden will do more than get animals off your property it will make it so they don’t even have a reason to come. However, if you are being plagued by an animal you can call a professional wildlife removal company and have the animal trapped. It’s not cheap, it takes a long time and it could even kill the animal. But if that is your last resort then so be it.