Pest on crop
Rabbit Damage on apricot
Sylvilagus and Lepus species
Cottontails and jackrabbits strip bark from young fruit trees in winter and graze tender garden vegetables year-round, especially seedlings.
- Pest
- Rabbit Damage
- Scientific name
- Sylvilagus and Lepus species
- Crop
- Apricot
- Total hosts
- 22
Rabbit Damage on apricot
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Signs on apricot
- ▸ Smooth-cut bark damage at angled rabbit-height (12-18 inches above snow)
- ▸ Cleanly clipped seedling stems at 45-degree angle
- ▸ Round droppings near feeding sites
- ▸ Tracks with two large rear footprints in front of two small front prints
IPM controls
- ✓ 1/4-inch hardware-cloth trunk guards (same setup as vole protection but taller, 18-24 inches)
- ✓ Chicken-wire fencing around vegetable beds (2 ft high, buried 6 inches deep)
- ✓ Repellents (Plantskydd, dried blood, predator urine) refreshed after rain
- ✓ Reduce brush piles and tall-grass cover near garden beds
- ✓ Encourage natural predators (foxes, hawks, owls)
Other crops affected by rabbit damage
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