Keep your harvest safe with this simple but effective method of protection from birds

There are a lot of ways to protect your fruit trees from be eat by birds. Many methods of protection from pigeons out there ensure they eradicate the problem without hurting these animals, but actually they may be effective just in short term.

Reflective bands, scarecrows or noisemakers might work for a season, before becoming useless when birds start get use to it. Other methods, such as bird repellent, are not harmful either, but turn out to be expensive due to constant replenishment of the product and also, some birds can become immune over time.

Guacamalla meshes work as a great, and at the same time cheap, option of protection from pigeons; it is make of a strong, long lasting nylon fiber that does not mistreat plants or animals, but also is very efficacious when to protect your fruit trees is about.

Being of plastic makes them more resistant than twine ones, and more elastic and cheaper than metal ones. Its installation is very simple: It is place over and around trees when fruits start to sprout, to make easier the maintenance and manipulation most of the time, and it is take off when harvest.

Another advantage of this protection from birds mesh is that preserves your fruit trees yield, but also let them grow healthy having as much contact to sun light as they would have without the mesh on.

These meshes can be destine to other uses as well, for example:

• As a protection from pigeons to limit their entry to urban, historic or public buildings. Pigeons have become one of the most common plagues of these times, and are the responsible of many respiratory diseases and even cancer. They are very smart birds and this is the reason why they are so hard to scare away, because they get use to most of the methods use. Guacamalla can be use to cover windows, balconies and rooftops to avoid pigeons and other birds to live in any building.
• To prevent bats from eating your harvest. Bats are, along with birds, one of the biggest concerns for farmers. The mesh also don’t hurt bats with this protection method.
• Guacamalla can even be used as a safety measure at home, as a fence for windows, balconies, and even indoors, to keep your children and pets safe from accidents or to limit the passage to certain areas of your home.

Besides using Guacamalla as an option of protection from pigeons, you could also build feeders and place them in a strategic spot of your farm.

You could even let some trees without a protective mesh so pigeons could feed but without ruining what is meant for sale.

These practices will protect bird’s habitat, providing them of the food they need, and also will be of benefit to you in long term, because they will learn where to eat and where not, which will save you concerns as you take care of the wildlife that is necessary to have a balanced ecosystem.

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