Michele and other infested GGs
Gary's onto the truth. Look up into your tree for squirrels. They  
start making nests this time of year to have their young-uns. Each  
spring I'm forced to stop them before they completely strip the  
foliage from my big silver maple in the back yard.

It's a good time to get rid of the pests before they have a brood.  
I'm not advocating any particular method. Myself? I prefer to catch  
them in luxuriously appointed and food-filled traps. Then I hire a  
limo for them out to the suburbs where they are released gently and  
can chomp on all the new growth they want. Unfortunately, they're  
just rats, so they sometimes bribe the driver and return. That's when  
I lightly, gently and with great pureness of heart kill them.

Sorry,
Wes

On May 3, 2006, at 5:30 AM, Michele Minch wrote:
>
> There are a lot of new leaves on the ground around the base of all  
> three.  Each piece on the ground is the new growth for the year,  
> about 2-4 inches long, with about a half dozen leaves on it.  The  
> base of each little stalk shows sign of having been bitten off. It  
> looks like something is biting off the new leaves.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Ed Minch
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