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rayj.balt@verizonDOTTnet wrote:

I posted this before, but it seems to have gotten lost. Sorry if it's
repeating.

I have a nice pear tree which produces an abundant crop each year, but the
moment the fruit gets up to mid-size, squirrels strip the tree of every
single pear.

Any suggestions welcome.

Here's an article I rough-drafted some while back, off the top of my head,
in this newsgroup, then later revised a bit more carefully for my website:
http://www.paghat.com/squirrelcontrol.html
Half that article is for comedy's sake, but some workable tactics are also
included.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/