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[sherwin <sherwindu@att.net>]

On 11/25/2013 7:56 PM, jerrydana5@aol.com wrote:
> I've got about 15 apple trees & peach trees and last summer I lost everything to 
> squirrels who would eat about 1/2 a fruit & then drop it.  It is next to a woods, 
> so they can jump onto the trees. I have a fence around the whole orchard, topped with 
> an electric fence which I bait with peanut butter to keep deer out, and that works.  
> But the squirrels are driving me crazy.  Is there anything like plastic snakes, owls, 
> etc I could put in the trees?  Or any other ideas?  Jerry in southern Indiana
> __________________
     Jerry,

     The only thing that worked for me was population reduction. 
Setting out two Havaheart
     traps over the course of a season netted me about 30 the first 
year.  That went down
     appreciably to almost none, at this time.  True, squirrels are 
territorial and do migrate
     back into an area once it is vacated, but that has not been my 
experience.

                 Sherwin in Morton Grove, IL