Re: %#$*@ Squirrels!
Earl Nishiguchi (earln@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu)
Mon, 29 Mar 93 12:48:34 HST
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> Last Fall I had problems with a squirrel who liked nothing more than to
> come dig up my D. binata "marston giant" up and leave it out in the
> sun....I tried everything short of murder to no avail - each afternoon I
> would come home an d fin it uprooted....
>
> Well, Spring is here, my S. oreophila had a pitcher up nearly 11 inches,
> and everything has flower stalks coming up....and this morning I went out
> and found the newly-developing S. oreophila pither broken off halfway, a
> S. flava pitcher chewed into and broken over, and holes in the potting mix
> in several pots. Little "Rocky" is at again. As the gray squirrel is an
> introduced species in the Pacific Northwest (displacing our native one), I
> think it's time to put out the rat traps......:\
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>
I'm glad we don't have squirrels here in Hawaii ... funny but I'm having
wild chicken problems again....gotta get out my traps again...
Earl