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never tryed it but it looks very time consuming and you would need plenty of old tights i will stick to my artificial sparrowhawks and perigean falcon you just have to move them about every other day -
My advice: grow a variety that the pests don't attack, or grow a sacrificial plant.
Fruits that ripen in summer are most at risk of pest damage.
"Eaters" are generally more prone to pest damage than "cookers" (would you want to eat a raw cooker? - thought not!).
Sweet, thin-skinned fruits are at greater risk than sour, thick-skinned fruits.
By picking fruits slightly early (and ripening the fruit indoors), you can sometimes get there before the pests.
By not allowing shady/crowded/humid/damp areas to develop on your fruit tree, you reduce the number of places that bugs/moulds can hide. Large clusters of fruits are often attractive to maggots because they can tunnel from one to the next - one maggot can destroy a whole bunch of fruit. It is therefore better to thin out crowded fruits, to reduce the attraction to pests and to reduce the ability of pests to crawl from one fruit to the next..Comment
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