I have never had these before, but it reminds me of an issue I had with my garden last year. In my idiocy over the last few years, I would feed some of the chipmunks outside of my house with peanuts. I thought it was neat that you could get them to climb right into your hand if you were patient enough.
Well, this was all fine and good until I started growing pumpkins. I kept noticing that the pumpkin blossoms were disappearing almost as soon as they would come out. One day, walking around the yard, I stood their stunned as I watched a chipmunk go right around and eat every visible blossom in my pumpkin patch! I couldn't believe that little bugger was sitting there with a flower in his/her mouth, chewing away.
Well, after that, I set up home made traps involving a half full bucket of water, sunflower seeds and a small 2X4, and that drowned about 15 chipmunks in a week. After that, I finally started getting pumpkins..
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