North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

["Idell Weydemeyer" <iwgarden@earthlink.net>]

Theses sound like good traps-- but have to think where to put them so that
my cats cannot get into them by mistake--any suggestions? 

Idell Weydemeyer

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Scott Smith
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 7:42 AM
To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio
Subject: Re: [nafex] Jerry's question on squirrels. An article I wrote on
the subject.

Alans approach is great if you don't have trees they can jump from.  I use
the trapping approach since I have too many trees I would have to protect,
including some owned by the neighbors.  After four different brands of traps
I settled on the Kania trap as the most reliable (by far).  It still not
easy to get them before they cause a lot of damage; they will not notice the
trap if there are nice apples or peaches.  

This year I have a new technique, I mounted a Kania trap on a metal fence
pole and I move it from tree to tree as they get interested in different
ripening trees.    I wrapped some junk wood to the metal pole so they can
easily climb up.  I put out a lot of mast (nuts and peanut butter) all
around the trap and up the pole as well as in the trap, and its been nearly
100% reliable.  With enough mast right by their favorite fruits you will get
them to switch their focus of interest.  I have one movable trap now and I
am going to make several more out of my stationary Kania traps.

Scott

__________________
nafex mailing list 
nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
aubscribe/unsubscribe|user config|list info|make a donation toward list
maintenance:
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex
message archives
https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex 
Google message archive search:
site: lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/nafex [searchstring] 
nafex list mirror sites:
http://groups.google.com/group/nafexlist
https://sites.google.com/site/nafexmailinglist
Avant Geared  http://www.avantgeared.com