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Mice love EBB

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Phildeez

Today I noticed a healthy pod on the ground next to my Ethiopian Brown Berbere, then I looked at the plant and every...single...pod is gone with a chewed off stem remaining, this plant is a bush and I have been waiting on about 40 pods to ripen, many of which were ripe and I was saving for seeds. I live in a pest-controlled apartment and I have not had any problem like this up to this point. Upon investigation I found a giant pile of chewed up peppers near the plant in a cinder block. I will be setting mouse traps tonight. This blows any insect pest out of the water.
 
Wow that's a tough blow. Sucks to loose all that work to a few pests. Good luck with the traps.
 
I think you should tackle this the same way you would any pepper pest problem. For instance, for aphids, you would get ladybugs. As such, for mice, I would get a snake, maybe a nice python.
 
Phil my man! That is :( to hear about your mouse problem. Sounds like a guard cat should be called for duty! :lol:
 
mice can eat hot peppers? i read that birds are not but all mammals are effected by capsicum. i thought that would protect them after say 1 bite?
 
Clearly not, what I have heard is that different species take capsaicin differently, I believe deer love peppers. If it was not mice then it was some other rodent, there are clear chew marks and a pile of half eaten peppers.
 
They moved past the EBB, found almost all of my green jalapenos and fresnos on the ground today. It is clearly a rat or more than one rat because they are eating tens of peppers a night.
 
spongey600 said:
buy sticky traps and place all around the pots.
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Unfortunately they discovered the plants in the ground which are all supported with a Florida Weave, meaning a rat is able to run on twine to every single plant very easily. The good news is that I know where they are coming from and I have 4 traps set for tonight.
 
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