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Farmville, Virginia (mfowler@hsc.edu)

I had something eating the crap out of my vine tips and younger leaves for the last week or so. A friend of mine is a trapper and set a few traps in the patch for me today. I checked the traps around midnight and had fat old possum in one. I had no idea these critters would eat pumpkin vines! Well, this one won't anymore!

8/22/2007 2:14:23 AM

Long Island,New York

he wasn't eating vines....you just didnt catch the vine eater....you caught a midnight stroller. Leave the trap in

8/22/2007 9:27:24 AM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

Possums are mostly carnivorous and scavengers..this time a year they are munching on grasshoppers.

8/22/2007 1:37:17 PM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Do you have squirrels in your area? They have bothered me for years...

8/22/2007 2:55:23 PM

Don Young has a recipe !

8/22/2007 5:40:54 PM

Fairport,NY

Funny thing happen the other night, after spraying down the patch with a fresh batch of Fish/seaweed fert.I let "Jake" my redbone coonhound out and he immedeately ran to the back towards my patch baying-up at the top of his lungs all I heard was screams of either a raccoon or oppossum that must have been attracted to the patch from the fresh fish smells?
i've caught numerous opposums in my live traps this year but i have not seen any damage to the pumpkins from them just those darn woodchucks!!!

8/22/2007 10:03:19 PM