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Well, Skunks help the environment in many ways but one very common way is by eating harmful insects. Many farmers don't know this but they find that a "pest" has been in tomato and carrot field, they automatically think that it was out of spite. This is the exact opposite. A skunk's diet consist of mostly insects. To be exact, 70%. When skunk's eat out a farmers plants, they eat the ones that have dangerous insects in them that can seriously harm us with diseases and other bacteria. So if you are a farmer and just someone who likes gardening and you see some of your precious plants missing, don't blame the skunks but in fact thank them.
Skunks are very important to the agricultural environment. The skunks niche is to control the insect population. The skunks are valuable to the agricultural environment because they eat insects that kill the plants.

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skunks are helpful to people because they eat insecs that kill farmers crops

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They smell.

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