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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

Peanut butter is great squirrel bait.

---- Original Message ----
From: scott@cs.jhu.edu
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Squirrel control with tangletrap (was fox urine)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 09:37:29 -0400

>Alan, I was thinking of trying tangletrap this year and noticed your 
>
>mention of it.  My peach trees are in a location where I can't  
>reliably shoot the squirrels and they have gotten most of my peaches 
>
>for the last several years (note that I am clearing out squirrels
>year- 
>round with my pellet gun, and I have only seen one (now-dead)
>squirrel  
>in the last two weeks in my yard, but surely a bunch will descend
>once  
>the peaches start to ripen).  If the tangletrap even slowed them down
> 
>a bit I would call that a victory.  My peach trees are all closely- 
>planted and about 8' tall; my plan was to put the tangletrap on the  
>main trunks of all of the trees.  Good plan?
>
>I have a whole pile of squirrel traps (three different brands, Kania,
> 
>tube, and Havahart) and I have not been able to reliably get the  
>squirrels in the traps as opposed to munching on the peaches.  I even
> 
>bought some "professional" squirrel bait to try but they still went  
>after the peaches instead.
>
>Scott
>
>
>
>> Alan Haigh writes:
>> Fox urine is one of many squirrel repellents I've wasted money on. 
> 
>> I found
>> it rather repulsive but my squirrels aren't so squeamish.  They
>like  
>> their
>> green peaches and pears spicy too, so you can forget pepper.  I've 
>
>> found
>> them quite repelled by buck-shot and moderately repelled by tangle 
>
>> trap and
>> netting, but not reliably so.