What Animal Eats Persimmons

Possums, raccoons, deer, rodents, and numerous birds will not only eat persimmons, but they will often travel great distances to the trees.

What animals like to eat persimmons?

More than 28 other wildlife species eat persimmons. Of course, practically everyone knows opossums do. But persimmons are also gobbled up by other mammals such as rodents, white-tailed deer (they also eat the leaves and twigs), raccoons, foxes, black bears and skunks.

What is eating my persimmons?

Generally, persimmon has relatively few insect pests. Scale, persimmon psylla, twig girdlers and borers attack the tree or leaves while plant and stink bugs may attack the fruit. Scales, predominantly white peach scale, attack the wood on the branches and trunk.