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 secret to why grey squirrels outcompete their ... 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 ...

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.