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[Dan Nave <nave1@comcast.net>]

It will just give them a tummy ache...

Dan

On 6/25/2011 5:30 PM, Sarah Kehler Ewing wrote:
> What does sugar do to the birds?  I want to deter them, not kill them.
>
> Sarah
> zone 3
> Edmonton, AB
>
>
> --- On Thu, 6/23/11, Richard Moyer<ramoyer@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
> > From: Richard Moyer<ramoyer@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [NAFEX] How to keep birds from blueberries
> > To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> > Received: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 5:38 PM
> > Jerry,
> > See this link from Marvin Pritts, Cornell fruit
> > researcher:
> > http://www.fruit.cornell.edu/berry/production/pdfs/bbbirds.pdf
> > They rate options to netting.
> >
> > I forget which NAFEX meeting, but I recall the fruit
> > researcher
> > wondering aloud why more homeowners and small-scale growers
> > were not
> > spraying sucrose as a bird deterrent.  Readily
> > available and
> > inexpensive.
> >
> > Richard Moyer
> > 1st peach ready today,  a PF-1.
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