I feel your pain.

I have 2 mature pear trees and they were loaded with fruit a few weeks ago. Now they have none. I lost probably close to 200 pears!!

I'm only at my orchard location on the weekends so for 5 days a week, the trees are on their own, but I was telling one of my neighbors about my problem and he let in on some startling news. He drove by one day and saw a couple of deer in each tree (including 4 mature apple trees) standing on their hind legs having a nice meal!

If anyone wants to come by and do some hunting, I'll give you free reign of the place......but you have to promise to take out at least 10!

Bart

Wow that stinks! At least I was able to harvest quite a few pears so it was not a total loss. What gets me is that only one tree was stripped. It didn't look like any were taken from the other 2. I could see where something (my guess chipmunks) had eaten half of each pear that had dropped on the ground around the one that ripens earlier than the other 2, but there was no evidence around the one without pears. I do love a nice fruit fed venison steak!

Hi,Boy now that is a loss, if I lived close by I would load up your freezer for you, I have seen deer strip out trees in nothing flat even a couple of big Ground Hogs can clean you out in three or four days. I shot one once in my Aunts standerd Pear tree He was so full of pears He must have weighed close to 40lbs. He Tasted like a big Rabbit.
Try stringing some electric wire around and get a motion detector light, that should end it.