Show fox squirrels diet the diet of the fox squirrel ranges from erows crows eggs to musk mellon although it will live almost exclusively on various kinds of nuts if they can be had cutting down of nut nat bearing trees has helped crows crow by limiting the squirrel population when squirrels become too plentiful they will at times raid truck carwins gardens and cause heavy damage it is better according to the national wildlife federation for hunters to harvest the surplus of any species of wildlife than forit for it to increase beyond the limits of its natural food supply |