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Sherwin,

What do you use for bait? I set many traps for squirrels -- and have used 
field corn, apples, peanuts, or peanut butter -- and have poor results luring 
them in. Squirrels here seem very wary. Same goes for rabbits.

Lee Reich, PhD
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On Nov 26, 2013, at 1:09 PM, sherwin wrote:

> 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
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