Looking for the best solution for sapsucker damage on a cypress tree. Wrapping the tree in burlap is feesable and hardware cloth isn't out of the question either but it is a large area with branches included. What has worked for you guys? Also read, to remove whatever in the summer. Do sapsuckers only feed in the winter? Or is it harmful to the tree to have it wrapped in summer? Thanks
sapsucker damage
- Thread starter Adkpk
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- Thunder Bay, Ontario
Six pack of beer, deck chair and a pellet gun.
No really, that's the best option. I've never heard of a fool proof protection. Since they return to the same tree over and over, if you scare them off for a few weeks, they may not return for the rest of the season.
V
No really, that's the best option. I've never heard of a fool proof protection. Since they return to the same tree over and over, if you scare them off for a few weeks, they may not return for the rest of the season.
V
Um not my property and can't see this homeowner using a gun, period. Also, I do think woodpeckers on are the protected list, even sapsuckers. Thanks
Nuthin special, where is that guy in your avatar from? Looks as if he is in a museum showcase. Do you have an Arborist museum in Ontario?
Nuthin special, where is that guy in your avatar from? Looks as if he is in a museum showcase. Do you have an Arborist museum in Ontario?
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- Thunder Bay, Ontario
I use the old pellet gun and and a six pack line when clients ask how to deal with squirrels or woodpeckers, always gets a laugh.
No museum here, we're pretty advanced here in Ontario but a museum is still 50 years away. My staff made me a figureine in my likeness a few years ago. That's what they think of me I guess. Just used a book for a backdrop instead of my messy desk.
Vince
No museum here, we're pretty advanced here in Ontario but a museum is still 50 years away. My staff made me a figureine in my likeness a few years ago. That's what they think of me I guess. Just used a book for a backdrop instead of my messy desk.
Vince
guymayor
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True their behavior is easily altered, so repellents can also work. cayenne, hot mustard, etc. "Chew - Stop" is a spray-on product
my aim at pool used to improve w # of beers (up to a point); does that work with pellet guns too?
...e they return to the same tree over and over, if you scare them off for a few weeks, they may not return for the rest of the season.
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True their behavior is easily altered, so repellents can also work. cayenne, hot mustard, etc. "Chew - Stop" is a spray-on product
my aim at pool used to improve w # of beers (up to a point); does that work with pellet guns too?
guymayor
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- East US, Earth
Actually sapsuckers were included in the Charismatic Carya--2007/--, the followup to Ill Illinoinensis. But their time will come again.
They can peck thru butrlap yes but licking the leaking is how they feed and that is where burlap stymies thier activity and sends them thither. If the c;lient says too ugly then take it off--birdss tend to stay away from dry wells i'm told,
O and thanks for the honorary PhD; goes with the GED nicely.
They can peck thru butrlap yes but licking the leaking is how they feed and that is where burlap stymies thier activity and sends them thither. If the c;lient says too ugly then take it off--birdss tend to stay away from dry wells i'm told,
O and thanks for the honorary PhD; goes with the GED nicely.
