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03 Aug 09 Tom (Australia - temperate climate)

Re animals eating chillis: it could be rats. We have possums, birds and rats. The birds are relatively easy to keep out - however they will find any holes in nets - particularly introduced English thrush. The possums at least eat the entire fruit and can tell which fruit is ripe - they don't tend to taste test like birds (taste testing spoils fruit which is not ripe). We have seen a rat or two in our garden that is too smart for any trap, poison etc. Presume it is the rat that can find its way through a mouse-wire cage I built for our berries and apple. I suspect rats are also responsible for partially eating fruit (different bite mark to birds).

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