It eats nuts, seeds, tree buds, flowers, fungi, insects and fruit in the spring and pinecones in the summer. In early fall they hide acorns.

It lives in mature woodlots of mixed pine and hard woods along streams and marshes.

The Environmental Defense Fund site has some suggestions about how to help the Delmarva Squirrel. http://www.environmentaldefense.org/documents/3734_Species_Delmarva.pdf