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Something eating strawberries

Zapperzy · 2020-06-15 15:17:22

Something is eating my strawberries as soon as they ripen. They're in a pallet, no issue with the top two thirds of the pallet just the bottom third something is eating the entire strawberry right back to the stem. I've never seen birds at them and I'd no issues last year except for the odd slug damaged one in wet weather.…

15-06-2020 4:17pm

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Something is eating my strawberries as soon as they ripen. They're in a pallet, no issue with the top two thirds of the pallet just the bottom third something is eating the entire strawberry right back to the stem. I've never seen birds at them and I'd no issues last year except for the odd slug damaged one in wet weather.

Dare I say but could it be mice, or worse??

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#2 15-06-2020 4:18pm

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Have you children?

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#3 15-06-2020 4:39pm

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partyguinness wrote: »

Have you children?

Nope no children

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#4 15-06-2020 4:42pm

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Can you post a picture please?

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#5 15-06-2020 4:58pm

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Some pics of the leftovers

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#6 15-06-2020 5:00pm

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Boards wouldn't let me upload all in one post. First pic is of my setup and second is another strawberry which the offending individual didn't get to finish

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#7 15-06-2020 5:10pm

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Zapperzy wrote: »

Boards wouldn't let me upload all in one post. First pic is of my setup and second is another strawberry which the offending individual didn't get to finish

Birds

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#8 15-06-2020 5:13pm

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Grats wrote: »

Birds

Feckers. Right netting it is, funny they didn't go near them last year

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#9 15-06-2020 6:01pm

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Yep, I'd say birds too, if it happens during the day. Slugs, snails, rodents or hedgehogs if it happens during the night.

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#10 15-06-2020 6:48pm

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Scrap that. I found your culprit.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=113742801&postcount=2769

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#11 15-06-2020 7:01pm

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Birds rarely eat the entire strawberry, seeming to prefer to tase lots of them. Got no other suggestion though.

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#12 15-06-2020 10:40pm

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I had a similar problem last year with my potatoes noticed there was alot of digging around them so got a loan of my friends hunting camera and caught my neighbor helping himself to the bigger potatoes and a few heads of cabbage late at night. I put up some barbed wire and seems to have stopped him this year pg

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#13 16-06-2020 6:36am

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Snowc wrote: »

I had a similar problem last year with my potatoes noticed there was alot of digging around them so got a loan of my friends hunting camera and caught my neighbor helping himself to the bigger potatoes and a few heads of cabbage late at night. I put up some barbed wire and seems to have stopped him this year pg

I'd like to think if the neighbour was taking them they'd pull them off the stalk and not nibble on them and leave half behind :-D

I put up a makeshift net along the bottom row, we'll see what happens

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#14 16-06-2020 12:38pm

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I had a similar issue and it was slugs, they go to town on them.

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#15 16-06-2020 1:55pm

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I find blackbirds are the main culprit. They start eating them before they even start to ripen.

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