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What eats mesquite?
Many wild animals along with rodents and birds eat mesquite. Coyotes have been known to eat mesquite beans and pods. Mesquite pods are safe and even beneficial for dogs as well.
Do mice in the desert eat cacti?
Cactus mice [Peromyscus eremicus] are omnivores, which means that they may eat plants and other animals. For example, they feed on seeds and mesquite beans. They are known to eat from the available vegetation. So they accept the blossoms, fruits, and leaves of green plants. But they also eat bugs and insects, such as crickets and mealworms. And they like fresh, clean water to drink.
What are mesquite beans?
They are the long pods where the seeds of the mesquite tree develop. They aren't edible. You may find canned beans called mesquite flavored beans. That just means they are flavored with some time of meat that has been smoked over mesquite wood.
Does mesquite grown in a pod?
Prosopis Mesquite beans grow in a pod as they are legumes.
Will mice eat the castor bean?
Castor beans are typically a deterrent for mice because of their toxicity. If a mouse were to eat them, they will be poisoned.
Can mice eat vegtables?
Mice can eat most vegetables including: carrot broccoli stems the end of beans all of these are not to be cooked!
Can you eat mesquite?
Eating the leaves or the wood of the mesquite tree would not be very tasty. However, the Comanche Indians living in the southwestern plains used to harvest seeds (beans) from the mesquite tree, and grind them into a paste which they used to sweeten and flavor their meat.
What does the sable antelope eat?
Sable Antelopes eat grazers such as grasses, herbs, or foliage.
Do mice eat beans?
Some mice will eat a range of substances. Common species such as the wood mice can find nutrition in vegetation such as seeds and fruits, as well as flower buds, mushrooms and other edible fungi.
Can sheep eat mesquite bean pods?
No, but it can eat grass.
Do bark beetles eat mesquite trees?
no
Are there mice in the desert?
This would depend of the type of mouse. Here are some examples:The cactus mouse, canyon mouse and Merriam's mouse all eat seeds, mesquite beans and leaves, and to a lesser extent, green vegetation, and insects.Grasshopper mice are predators, hunting insects, beetles, grasshoppers, and scorpions, but they also hunt and kill other mice.Cotton rats eat mostly green plants and grasses. woodrats eat mesquite beans, palo verde seeds, green plants, and cacti, particularly prickly pears and chollas, which provide them with moisture as well as food. Occasionally they eat insects or other meat.
