monkey teasing rope .Rambutan

[thakshila smith]

This pic shows monkey teasing tric. We hang tins on a rambutan tree and shake them by a rope when monkeys arrive.
Hi , Hi .Thats how we protect the fruits from monkeys and bats and owls.
Another shrub belongs to Sri Lanka.

[Baz in Oz]

Thakshila, we don't get monkeys in Australia and our owls are the 'good guys' that prey on rats etc but our bats..........

We have hordes of fruit bats aka flying foxes that will out-smart you every time. You can wait up until 5am with your deterrent and five seconds after you go to bed, they will visit you with all their mates and take a bite out of everything that is ripe or almost ripe.

Baz in Oz

[thakshila smith]

Baz, Monkeys destroy our breadfruit ,papaw , every thing.
monkeys come on day time.
Good that you do not have monkeys over there. Why all were eaten already?
Monkeys got a good brain and they come silently and they never go back until the fruits are over.
For bats we light laps and actually hire people to chase away bats .
Here we get bats look like Dracula and as big as hens.

[Baz in Oz]

I don't think monkeys ever made it this far east. Maybe the dinosaurs kept them away - or ate them?

Baz

[stefpix]

I have actually a Longan I am growing from a seed of some longans I ate from Chinatown.

I have a problem with squirrels. I started growing hot peppers like habaneros/ scotch bonnets and I blend them with garlic and water and spray the plants outside my window. Sometimes it works but the other day a squirrel chewed a lot of stuff including a chunk of a plastic pot.

Wonder it it ate a pepper and went crazy.

Squirrels ate all my dward pomegranate unripe fruits

[thakshila smith]

stefano,
Here too we keep that deterrent to scared away squirrels.
They are too mad at rambutan fruites. We hang empty busicuit tins , salmon tins on the tree and tie them with long rope and shake the rope to scare off them. It works for squirrels more than monkeys.
My goodness they run away hundred meters.
The disadvantage is we have to be in the garden
to chase away the animals. Or hire some one.
When the fruits are not sour and sweet the guys eat them before they get ripe. You must see the size of damage they do to bananas. People sell bananas as a self employment . Either they feed monkeys and bats with them. If we go away for half day whole bunch of monkeys with their babies come and have a feast.
When the paddy is ready to harvest paddy birds come in thousands and consume half of it.
Boys shout at them during whole day.

[Brotherly Monkey]

Thak, what part of Sri Lanka are you in? I spent some time there when I was renewing a Visa from India, but spent most of my time in Kandy.

It was the beginning of the summer so Colombo was just to hot for anything, besides leaving

[thakshila smith]

Kandy is in hill country . Climate is comfortable there.
But I live closer to Colombo.
Its true Colombo our capital city is hot not bec of weather but tart roads and buildings. The suburbs are cool.

[thakshila smith]

You can see a monkey resting or may be aiming at a rooftop .
Monkey jumped away when I capturing him.

[thakshila smith]

This is latest pic of a monkey resting on a rubber tree. There were a herd of monkeys.
The other picture can you guess what is it?