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["Alan Haigh" <alandhaigh@gmail.com>]

I have tried both commercial concoctions and batches of really foul and mucho caliente habenero stew derived from pounds of seed combined with a real good spreader-sticker.  Squirrels have the tolerance of Thailanders and would be out chewing on fruit sprayed just hours before.  I think the peaches would have been too hot for my Ethiopian wife.  It makes me sick that products like this are marketed by reputable companies and apparently have no efficacy.  Put Jap Beetle traps on that list.

 

I forgot to mention another useful distraction- mulberry trees, either to provide an early site to shoot them or to keep them away for  the early season.  If there is an Illinois Everbearing mulberry between the woods and your crop they'll often hit the mulberry first.