This morning, when I went to check the status of ripening fruit on the two late apricots, I found this mess in between the ‘Autumn Glo’ (the tree whose trunk is visible) and the ‘Earli Autumn.’ (Hey, I didn’t give them their names!)
Some fruit had been knocked down, and while there are a couple of fruits that have been more or less cut in two, the rest is chopped up, almost as though someone was preparing a fruit salad.
What sort of animal does this? I had not seen anything like ths till recently. I found a few chopped up fruit beneath the ‘Earli Autumn’ before I tightened the netting over that tree. The ‘Autumn Glo’ had no neeting at the time this happened. It does now. We’ll see if that helps. But this is quite a mystery.
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That is among the weirdest fruit damage I have ever seen.
Seed planted by Evil Fruit Lord — 17 August 2006 @ 19:13
I have the answer to your fruit damage…Chupacabra! All the way from Maine.
Seed planted by Tareq — 23 August 2006 @ 13:04