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  • From: Del Stubbs <northernlights2n@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Peanut Butter Treats/ rabbits
  • Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 19:37:57 -0700 (PDT)

My best luck with chipmunks has been Havahart traps with sunflower seeds,
just put near
whatever they are feasting on that week. However, we are seeing a boom in the
cottontail
population, I have found no bait that will entice them into a large box trap,
including
apples, any clues?
Del

--- Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
> In this past year I had no success with either bonbons or tube
> trap. I put out about a hundred bonbons and saw no observable dent
> in the squirrel population. After some time the squirrels stopped
> eating them, only the birds were eating them. The squirrels decided
> they preferred peaches and tomatoes, or maybe they somehow figured
> out the bonbons were "unhealthy" :-) At that point I stopped
> putting any more out.
>
> I have one of those tube traps and while I have not had it long, I am
> finding it hard to set well, it will not trigger unless you set it
> just right. I have not completely written it off yet since my
> experience is limited, but it doesn't seem to be any better than any
> other trap. I did manage to catch quite a few squirrels this year in
> Havahart traps and with squirrel poles (snares attached to a pole),
> and also with the pellet gun.
>
> One thing I have learned in a few years of squirrel hunting is to pay
> attention to what they are eating. They are most easily culled when
> they are the most hungry; if there are plenty of peaches or nuts they
> are harder to entice into a trap. In my neighborhood, they go from
> mulberry season to peach season to nut season; in each of these
> periods they are harder to trap. This is a bit of a gap between each
> of these three seasons when things get easier. I plan to do more
> late fall through early spring trapping because I expect they will be
> much more hungry then.
>
> Scott




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