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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [Bulk] Protecting Apples
  • Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 17:42:35 -0500

Put the trap and captured squirrel in a bucket of water. It will
promptly die. Then fry the cut-up squirrel.

---- Original Message ----
From: sherwindu@att.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [Bulk] Protecting Apples
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:37:37 -0500

>On 6/1/2011 5:12 PM, Spidra Webster wrote:
>> I didn't have too many apple pests to worry about in my garden in
>Berkeley
>> but it's a new ballgame here in South Pasadena. Yesterday I came
>back from a
>> short vacation to find that one Yellow Newtown Pippin apple had
>been knocked
>> off and another had been either pecked or bitten. Not sure whether
>it's
>> birds or squirrels. We have a number of corvids here (crows,
>ravens, scrub
>> jays) and they're pretty brazen. There are also feral parrots
>though they
>> seem to forage on camphor berries, and mockingbirds. Then there
>are the
>> freegin' fargin' squirrels, who seem to commit random violence (I'm
>pretty
>> sure they're the ones who bit my sunflower stalk and tipped the
>sunflower
>> over but didn't touch the seeds) over and above what they do while
>actually
>> eating.
>>
>> What can I use to protect the developing fruit and give it a chance
>to grow?
>> I'd rather not resort to bird netting since my gardening ground
>here is
>> borrowed from my parents and my mom will likely object to netting
>those
>> trees. I was hoping there was a plastic cage or some kind of bag I
>could put
>> on the fruit to discourage pests.
>>
>>
>> Megan Lynch
>> http://www.meganlynch.net
>>
> Megan,
>
> My answer to the squirrel problem is Havaheart animal traps.
>Over
>the years, I have been
> able to reduce the number of trapped squirrels from over 20 to
>about 5 a year. Peanut butter on a
> piece of bread never fails. Be sure to set the traps at the
>trigger point, or they may not go off.
> Also, be sure to close them at night or you may find some skunks
>or
>other nocturnal animals
> inside. I got a permit to trap from my county forest preserve
>office, but dumping them is not
> permitted in most places. I try and find a large wooded area,
>at
>least 5 miles from my home.
> You may not see the results immediately, but over a few years
>there
>should be a big reduction.
> Squirrels are territorial, and will move in to fill a gap, so
>you
>have to do the maintenance thing
> every year. Also, bagging your fruit with plastic ziplocks will
>
>slow down some of these attacks.
>
> Sherwin Dubren
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