[NAFEX] Squirells
Doreen Howard
gardendiva at charter.net
Sun Sep 24 20:54:25 EDT 2006
>I have a small pear tree that had a dozen or so pears this year...I
> tried bagging them with lunch bags but the squirells shredded them. Is
> there any feasible way to protect the pears from these pests???
Heavier bags. I have the same problem with squirrels, birds and wild
turkeys. I use the extra-thick zipper type freezer bags when I bag apples
and pears at thinning. There is no damage from disease, insects or critters
with these on my nine apple trees and one Asian pear. In fact, I took off
all the bags one morning last week before I started picking the apples and
Asian pears. Within 15 minutes, a dozen apples had bird pecks in them and I
caught a squirrel running off with an apple. Needless-to-say, I started
picking immediately.
Doreen Howard
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