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  • From: "philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:42:45 -0600

My blackbirds and mockingbirds are smart enough to know a plastic owl when
they see one. My 2 "owls" from Lowes haven't stopped them from munching on
my persimmons and muscadines. I move them every day also. Neither did CDs
hung in the tree do anything. Netting works.
phil
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thetes_Mark_Straka" <ling.mark@msa.hinet.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:37:02 -0700
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?

> I just saw a "prowler owl" with a four-foot wingspan to mount on a 1/2"
> pole to scare off bird pests (on eBay:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4314418476&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AMT%3A1)
> I was wondering if anyone has used this or something like this, and of
> course, how effective it is. [By the way, what's the opposite of "decoy?"]
>
> I'm trying to read Fred Brison's Pecan Culture, but I'm having trouble
> getting through Chapter Two. It is laced with vocabulary like: pericycle,
> acropetal, xylem, parenchyma, schlerenchyma, medullary ray tissue,
> abscission, sessile flowers, bract, apical dominance, perianth, peduncle,
> and I could go on. I am in bad need of some reference work that will get
> me up to speed (hopefully illustrated!) and I'm soliciting recommendations
> right now. Thank you all very much.
>
> I'm a rank beginning pecan orchardist.
>
Mark Straka
>
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