%#$*@ Squirrels!
Bob Beer (bbeer@u.washington.edu)
Mon, 29 Mar 1993 13:04:46 -0800 (PST)
Last Fall I had problems with a squirrel who liked nothing more than to
come dig up my D. binata "marston giant" up and leave it out in the
sun....I tried everything short of murder to no avail - each afternoon I
would come home an d fin it uprooted....
Well, Spring is here, my S. oreophila had a pitcher up nearly 11 inches,
and everything has flower stalks coming up....and this morning I went out
and found the newly-developing S. oreophila pither broken off halfway, a
S. flava pitcher chewed into and broken over, and holes in the potting mix
in several pots. Little "Rocky" is at again. As the gray squirrel is an
introduced species in the Pacific Northwest (displacing our native one), I
think it's time to put out the rat traps......:\