Remember the 5-7-9 rule: squirrels won’t jump more than 5 feet off the ground, 7 feet across, or 9 feet down. This can be tricky—few spots check all these boxes—but if it’s doable in your yard, it ...

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The nest boxes will then be left at ILW for Nature’s Nursery to pick up and use for the squirrels during the cold winter months. The workshops will take place at 3156 W. Central Ave. on: ...

Later we found another box with six squirrels, for a 13-squirrel day. Flying squirrels are quite social and typically roost together. Don’s record is 13 animals in one box.

Rafael Dai Pra, a PhD candidate, retrieves a squirrel box off of a hibernaculum shelf. The facility holds more than 250 squirrels at a time. Credit: Lauren Leffer/Popular Science.

A flying squirrel peers from its nest box, placed on a dead eastern hemlock, quietly watching me, the real space invader, wander through my backyard.