One of my citrus trees has significant damage from some animal, probably a tree squirrel, stripping bark from branches! One branch has bark stripped completely in one area and is girdled! It looks like major prunning may be necessary in the spring. It appears I may lose 30 to 40 percent of the tree. I hope this problem does not recurr.

Maybe I left the fruit on the tree too long and attracked animals who may like citrus flavor? I also notice animals eating the fruit.


In the summer sometimes black birds will peck on my meyer lemon fruit while it is still green. Anyone else have this problem?

I have this problem with rabbits. At least that is all I can suspect since they are everywhere. Not too many squirrels in the desert. This of course is at the base of the tree only. I tried painting the trunk (which I need to do anyway) to see if stops them.

Looks like it is time to get some chicken wire to go around the tree and bury the bottom down an inch or so. Rabbits are much easier to deter than squirrels.

We have squirrels everywhere, and they tend to leave the citrus alone. One time I caught one sneaking a taste of a Meyer Lemon. Maybe we should concentrate on developing citrus with extra long dagger thorns.

Well, a bit longer thorns - and the photosyntesizing surface would be sufficient already without leaves...
Harri.

Morphinelover, here it is:
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