Maybe not normally, Jim, but I have learned thru first-hand experience to ignore the advice of "experts."
Many say that squirrels only eat nuts. Not true. Last fall I watched, with my own eyes, three squirrels swarm a collard plant (much like sharks in a feeding frenzy) and they took it to the ground.
Not only is that not what squirrels "do"(so the experts say) but anybody who has grown collards knows how unusual that is. At least around here, collards are the safest plant to grow because rabbits apparently don't like them, insects that bother other garden plants don't touch them, and even a groundhog (which will eat anything) we had last year ate a collard leaf but never did it again. Nonetheless, the so-call nut-eating squirrels took it down to a nub.
So much for what the so-called internet gardening experts say.