Grey squirrels are an invasive species from North ... They out-compete the native red squirrels for food and space and carry a disease, called the squirrel pox virus, which kills the reds but ...

Squirrelpox - which is carried by grey squirrels but is deadly only to reds ... Lisa Fuller Some outbreaks of the disease can take "months to burn out" It has been trapping and killing greys ...

a disease caused by microscopic mites that burrow into the skin and are unseen by the naked eye. Hair loss attributed to the squirrel mange mite, Notoedres douglasi, has been reported in both fox and ...

The grey squirrel carries a disease that is fatal to red squirrels while the grey remains unaffected. However, grey squirrels are much larger than red squirrels and need more food to survive.

competition from the larger gray squirrels, and unfamiliar diseases contracted from the grays. To protect red squirrels and woodlands, gray squirrels have been subject to lethal control for decades.

A new red squirrel colony has been found in the Yorkshire Dales –with the help of a bit of detective work. Thermal imaging cameras, which pick up body heat, were used to detect four individuals from ...