What the flying squirrel eats, and how?
The flying squirrel feeds at night on nuts, fruit, buds, and insects and rarely descends to the ground. So, it obtains most of it's food on the trees and other high areas.The video below shows a flying squirrel high in the trees eating seeds.
After the flying squirrel's meal (like any other animal) it has to release the waste. Squirrel poop contains four components of importance to the forest: 1 spores of mycorrhizal fungi, 2 yeast which is a nutrient base, has the ability to stimulate both growth and nitrogen fixation in the bacteria, and may also stimulate spore germination 3 nitrogen fixing bacteria and 4 an antifreeze that protects the spores during the cold of winter, without which the bacterial cells would rupture and die when feces deposited during winter thawed in spring.
