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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #250 on: July 23, 2017, 03:28:03 PM »
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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #251 on: July 23, 2017, 03:36:28 PM »

I just love the circus. I hope they have cotton candy!


Ah, a relaxing picnic.


I don't see what's so hot about Juliet.  Why does SHE get all the attention?

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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #252 on: July 23, 2017, 05:27:45 PM »
Here in Spain -and almost everywhere in Europe- one of the biggest (in the broadest sense of the word) problems is the wild boar. Part of my work as biologist is to sample them and for that I use cameras trap to find and count them. Here some examples:














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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #253 on: July 23, 2017, 06:41:34 PM »
We have that same problem here in the US.  My husband's sister lives in Mason Texas, and they are absolutely overrun with wild boars.




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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #254 on: July 24, 2017, 07:10:24 PM »
Found this little Jesse slithering at the base of a potted Ponderosa lemon tree on the pool deck.


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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #255 on: July 26, 2017, 09:21:01 PM »
Ring-necked snakes are poisonous.  They can't open their mouths wide enough to bite a finger, but in that picture, it is getting kind of close to a fold of skin that it might tackle.
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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #256 on: July 27, 2017, 02:50:38 AM »
We have that same problem here in the US.  My husband's sister lives in Mason Texas, and they are absolutely overrun with wild boars.




Yes, Texas is one of the hot spots for this animal in USA (where is non-native). The wild boar is thriving fast in south and mainly in south-east, where predators that could control its expansion were extirpated (basically cougar, jaguar and wolf).

This week I "caught" some interesting ones with the cameras, these fellas would keep your squirrels far from mangoes (also would eat your hens, I'm afraid  ;D).

Egyptian mongoose:



House marten:


Common genet:



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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #257 on: July 29, 2017, 10:57:16 PM »
Snake in my yuzu tree -




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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #258 on: August 04, 2017, 01:07:35 AM »
My guava trees have lots of these praying mantis type bugs that look like guava leaves.  No idea what they are or what they eat.



 
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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #259 on: August 04, 2017, 01:50:16 AM »
It's a katyidid, not prying mantins. Katydids eat mostly plant leaves.
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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #260 on: August 04, 2017, 10:11:15 AM »
Its probably eating my guava trees although I havent seen a lot of damage.  Is there anything to use to get rid of them?
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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #261 on: August 04, 2017, 02:14:42 PM »
Just remove it manually. It usually isn't hoards of katydids taking out an orchard or tree, so shouldn't be any need to use anything unless you notice a bunch of them.

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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #262 on: August 30, 2017, 06:14:18 AM »
This bat has been devouring on our guavas for a couple of days.


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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #263 on: September 16, 2018, 01:34:24 AM »
I have hassles with flying foxes and cockatoos but lately I have had goannas stealing eggs and hassling the fowls. They have threatened me a few times in the last couple of weeks and I would prefer not to tangle with one when I am moving them along.I figure I have 4 regulars.




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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #264 on: September 16, 2018, 01:48:12 AM »
Interesting animals! All I get are spiders in my citrus (orb weavers) bats squirrels and rats. :( at least I don't have to deal with venemous snakes.
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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #265 on: September 16, 2018, 05:35:22 AM »
Pruning mango found myself face to face with this peaceful little Screech Owl. I waited till the next day he had moved on, and hopefully he is on rodent control at night.


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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #266 on: September 16, 2018, 05:41:14 AM »
I have hassles with flying foxes and cockatoos but lately I have had goannas stealing eggs and hassling the fowls. They have threatened me a few times in the last couple of weeks and I would prefer not to tangle with one when I am moving them along.I figure I have 4 regulars.



Australia definitely takes the cake for most bizarre animal encounters!
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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #267 on: September 16, 2018, 06:19:35 AM »
That goanna photographed last week is hanging above my bedroom window and that foliage is from my big pitangatuba (thanks Oscar).8m away are my sapodillas and the screeching of flying foxes sends me through the ceiling at 2am with their blood curdling screams.


Getting back to goannas, this lace monitor last week stripped the leaves off the papaya just by climbing on it.

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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #268 on: September 16, 2018, 07:59:47 AM »
Common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius) nest in one of my soursop trees, built using just 3 leaves

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Day 7, nest is no more   :'( :'( :'(

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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #269 on: September 16, 2018, 09:48:49 AM »
Wow, the little tailorbird nest is amazing. They actually sew, so cool.

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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #270 on: September 16, 2018, 10:23:10 AM »
I have hassles with flying foxes and cockatoos but lately I have had goannas stealing eggs and hassling the fowls. They have threatened me a few times in the last couple of weeks and I would prefer not to tangle with one when I am moving them along.I figure I have 4 regulars.



Wow, i wouldn't want those guys around looks like they can climb any thing you guys do have some off the wall critters! Although yours is on the wall!! Do they go after any of your fruit ? ???

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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #271 on: September 16, 2018, 01:03:30 PM »
Do your local laws protect those monitor lizards?  Seems you would have shot them.
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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #272 on: September 17, 2018, 01:28:18 AM »
Goannas are meat eaters and scavengers and don't really eat fruit. There are lots of species of them and these are lace monitors. The biggest adults are probably around 35lbs and 1.8m long or a little bigger,but my ones are less than that. All wildlife is protected even the big pythons and venomous snakes. Not many guns in private hands in Australia and you certainly cant use them in the suburbs.

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Re: Wildlife in your fruit trees ?
« Reply #273 on: September 17, 2018, 01:35:28 AM »
I have hassles with flying foxes and cockatoos but lately I have had goannas stealing eggs and hassling the fowls. They have threatened me a few times in the last couple of weeks and I would prefer not to tangle with one when I am moving them along.I figure I have 4 regulars.




Unfortunately Cane Toads wiped out most of our Goannas over the past decade. As a consequence the Bush Chook population has exploded and they're causing a lot of havoc in gardens. Prefer to have the Goannas back any day. And the other things the Cane Toads have virtually wiped out are the Frilled-neck Lizards.




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« Reply #274 on: September 17, 2018, 03:50:37 AM »
Cane toads here initially impacted on the northern quolls,freshies and Varanus panoptes and V.gouldii as well as quite a few others that are now being affected in the NT.They will bounce back to normal abundances as they did in qld.Cane toads didn't make anything die out or change in abundance in the long term. After the cane toad boom they will bust and get less common and be naturalised.
The frillies around here are one thing you don't see as many of as when I was a kid. That isn't because of toads.