Will Tabasco harm Sycamore

[Nat2711]

Our Sycamore has suffered quite a bit of damage this year as a result of squirrels chewing off the bark to get to the softer and sweeter flesh.

it was suggested that we spray the branches with Tabasco diluted in water, to deter the squirrels. Will the Tabasco harm the tree?

[skc101fc]

Chickens eat dog shit and each other!

[Stubby]

They definitely eat leftover cooked chicken for sure .

[peds]

They'll eat smaller, weaker, or slightly-injured live chickens too, if the mood takes them. 

[Stubby]

9 hours ago, peds said:

They'll eat smaller, weaker, or slightly-injured live chickens too, if the mood takes them. 

Bit like rats in that respect . If I don't check the traps first thing in the morning there is just the head left !

[Steven P]

The RSPB did some research of chilli in bird feeds, turns out that some squirrels hate it.. but some love it spicy!

[Mesterh]

Squirrel fact of the day. Put sweet corn in your squirrel feeder, if it doesn't get eaten then you only have red squirrels in your area. Grey squirrels eat sweetcorn but red one's don't. 

 

 

[david lawrence]

Is that tinned sweet corn or dry hard pop corn  type corn 

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Mesterh said:

Squirrel fact of the day. Put sweet corn in your squirrel feeder, if it doesn't get eaten then you only have red squirrels in your area. Grey squirrels eat sweetcorn but red one's don't. 

 

 

 

1 minute ago, david lawrence said:

Is that tinned sweet corn or dry hard pop corn  type corn 

Good question, we used to pre bait hoppers with maize/corn, as in like uncooked pop corn, to see when greys had started visiting, then the  warfarin (now banned for squirrel) coated and dyed wheat was put in the hoppers. 

 

The thing is the squirrels never ate the whole corn kernel, the indication of their presence was that the germ had been eaten but the rest of the kernel was left.

[Mesterh]

It looked like dried sweetcorn to me. Info was from a ranger when we visited center parks years ago, they use it to monitor get squirrels.