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**BEARS (First disease, then bugs, then squirrels, now bears!!)
Comments (19)Bears happen. Here in Montana black bears do wander into our town (well, small city) and cause a lot of problems in orchards and dumpsters. Fish and Game or Wildlife and Parks will humanely deal with them pretty quickly. Usually they dart them and relocate them, sometimes trap. They almost never find it necessary to kill them. I've taken to carrying pepper spray when I'm in the mountains now (as much for wolves and cougar as for bear) and you might consider it. This is a pint aerosol that goes off with a very loud bang and sends a cloud of capsaicin. It has been known to turn charging grizzlies, which is a good trick. One experience with it will convince Black Bear to seek friendlier neighborhoods. Expect to pay forty or fifty bucks for a can. Local bear expert Jamie Jonkel says it will, in fact, deter 9 of 10 grizzlies .... There's no warranty for the tenth bear. You'd have to lay in wait for your bruin, so it may not be practical. I can imagine trying to convince my wife that I needed to sit up and stare at my trees until daybreak! Good luck. We all sympathise. :-)M...See MoreSquirrels...Squirrels...SQUIRRELS!!!
Comments (5)I have squirrel problems too. One thing that has been pretty good for me are white fabric hairnets, also called bouffant caps - the kind they use in clean rooms. I'll use a larger round pot and plant several seeds about 1" apart or whatever in it. I also top off with chicken grit if I think the seedling can compete with it. Then I stick a chop stick in the middle, put the hairnet over it (they are reusable BTW and last from year to year). Then I put a rubber band around that. It doesn't heat up like plastic, it lets the rain in and keeps the seedlings from drying out, keeps them from being crushed by water, keeps them from scorching in full sun. You can also water through them. Open it up once and a while for circulation if it's particularly damp out for a few weeks. The hairnets will stay on without the rubberbands but animals might take them to make their nests. Here is a link for this type of cap, though I am not sure what brand I have. Here is a link that might be useful: Bouffant Caps...See MoreA gang is in my neighborhood-need help with squirrels
Comments (4)I use "Repels-All". You'll find it at Lowes and other stores. It is sprayed about every week or two and they don't seem to want to be around it. You don't spray the plants, only the pots or the structures around the plants to set up a perimeter of sorts. I even spray the tree trunks and they won't come down if they have to cross the spray line....See MoreFox Squirrel vs. Gray Squirrels
Comments (3)Sub-Detroit the fox squirrels are being pushed out by the black phase gray squirrels. I noticed that during the very cold part of winter the Fox squirrels are not as active as the gray squirrels. Mostley maple trees in my yard but I do have a Paw-Paw tree that is just getting gentiried and produces fruit prolificly and the Black-phase Gray squirrels hav discoverd the fruit and really is a bummer I didn't get one fruit to eat last fall....See Morejoed
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