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| | UConn IPM Pest: White-tailed Deer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Deer damage or feed on a wide variety of fruits and vegetables such as cole crops, lettuce, grapes, corn, pumpkins, berries, tomatoes, fruit trees and other plants. |
 | | Damage by deer in Connecticut is increasing as residential development forces deer into smaller and smaller habitats and wild food sources decrease. |
 | | Fences are the best nonlethal way to protect a field from deer damage, For large areas, wire fences should be at least eight feet high and can be made using two, four-foot widths of welded wire fencing joined one on top of the other. |
| www.hort.uconn.edu /ipm/homegrnd/htms/11deer.htm (1273 words) |
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