"Janice" wrote in message
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In the case of nuts, the tree grossly overproduces. The nuts that
the
squirrel buries but never digs up is the nut that grows.

You may notice that fruit tends to be sour or bitter before the seeds
are mature. They are generally inconspicuous, too. It's only after
the
seeds are ready that the fruit ripens and changes color to attract
the
animals.

Ray Drouillard

Squirrels hereabouts don't worry about waiting for things to ripen! I
bought an apricot years ago.. sweet heart I think.. that had an almond
like pit with the apricot fruit. I never saw a one of them, squirrels
cut every one of them, and it had a heavy load of fruit on it, off the
tree while they were green.

Chickens roosting in the tree split the tree, and I didn't even
attempt to save any of it because I knew that I'd never get anything
from it with squirrels around.

Ah hates squirrels! I need a herd of trained Maine Coon Cats ..
trained to catch and dispatch squirrels to the "nut house beyond!"

Janice

You could always go down to your local tractor supply company store and
get an electric fence charger and a few yards of wire. Squirrels are
really hard to keep out of a tree, but two strands of electric fence
(one too low to crawl under, and one too high to jump over) will do the
trick quite nicely.

Of course, that assumes that there aren't any other trees close enough
for the tree rats to jump from one to the other.


Other solution? Squirrel pot pie, of course!



Ray