Re: meanest squirrel on earth
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: meanest squirrel on earth
- From: G*@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 21:28:26 EDT
In a message dated 7/27/98 3:46:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dgs@leland.stanford.edu writes:
<< Subj: meanest squirrel on earth
Date: 7/27/98 3:46:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: dgs@leland.stanford.edu (Dan Shapiro)
Sender: owner-pumpkins@mallorn.com
Reply-to: pumpkins@mallorn.com
To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
I'm in the escalation phase of a pitched battle now, and I was wondering if
anyone on the list can help...
Turns out a squirrel (I hope it is just one) in the nieghborhood has
developed a taste for the tender ends of pumpkin vines, AND young female
flowers. It is a hungry little devil too. It's consumed 4 females just
before pollination, and about half a dozen vine ends so far. I've tried:
(1) urinating round the patch
(2) putting pepper spray on the vine ends and young female flowers
(3) covering the flowers and vine ends with remay socks, and
tenting the
pollinated flowers.
(4) a rat trap
(5) a non-lethal squirrel trap
So far, no luck. The remay protected the females, but the squirrel has
just shifted its attentions to the vine exposed between the remay and
ground. It ate the end off the main vine of my main plant this morning and
I am pissed.
What are my next steps? A chicken wire fence? Any tricks to making it
more effective, like curling the top foot out and away from the patch?
I am the sort of guy who would consider high tech remedies too. Someone
out there must have fantasized about this.... what did you come up with?
Dan Shapiro
>>
Use a cage trap with a slice of bread with peanut butter on it. Also add a
little oil of anise.
George
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