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[Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>]

If you use cotton drawstring parts bags you will slow them down quite a bit.  
Bag the fruit, pull the string tight and then do a bow knot around the limb 
to keep it tied to the tree.  If you don't tie the bag to the tree the 
squirrel will pull it all off and take it back home for a lengthy chew.  They 
will probably chew through some bags on the tree but my squirrels get 
frustrated at that game and search for easier food.

I now use Kania traps on my squirrels.  They are lethal in ten seconds for 
Mr. Squirrel, and have been very reliable.

Scott

On Jun 1, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Ginda Fisher wrote:

> 
> On Jun 1, 2011, at 6:37 PM, sherwin wrote:
>> Also, bagging your fruit with plastic ziplocks will 
>> slow down some of these attacks.
>> 
>>                                                    Sherwin Dubren
> 
> Well, last year the squirrels ate all the unbagged apples before they ate 
> the bagged apples (in zip lock bags), but they ate all the bagged apples 
> before they got to be two inches across.  Early in the "season" I found 
> chewed up bags at the base of the tree, but eventually they got the hang of 
> opening the bags, and later in the season I just found empty bags.
> 
> 
> Ginda
> Eastern MA, zone 6
> 
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