An Object of Interest
From Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey by Petey Mesquitey
February 23, 2026 · 4 min
About this episode
This episode explores the gray fox and its habitat, diverging from an initial focus on wood borers.
When I sat down to put this episode together I thought it was going to be about the flatheaded wood borers I find when I’m splitting fire wood. Somewhere after talking about sauntering around our homestead I wandered off to another topic. Did I even mention wood borers? So gray fox skull it is. I’ll save flatheaded wood borers for another time. Stay tuned! Gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) have a large range in North America with much of it shared with the red fox (Vulpes vulpes). Red foxes don’t occur in Arizona…well, maybe up along the northern border…so gray foxes…
People in this episode
Host: Petey Mesquitey
Topics covered
- wildlife
- gray foxes
- wood borers
- homestead
- nature
Keywords
- gray fox
- wood borers
- Arizona
- wildlife
- nature
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: gray fox skull
Places: Arizona, North America, Urocyon cinereoargenteus, Vulpes vulpes
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