Birds? Mice? Rats? Squirrels?

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Originally Posted by korney19

I don't remember much but will start with the organza.[...]

Back to the bags, I still harvested some bags with fruits inside, which I believe inhibited the rats or squirrels from getting them

No critters have tried to chew through, but I suspect that some figs I let get overripe might have had the bags and fruit inside yanked off by something trying to get at them. Sadly, the only creatures that seem to have benefited were ants.

Originally Posted by korney19

I always order silver bags when available.

I have a pack of small bags in assorted colors I bought for cheap off eBay or Amazon Marketplace or something. I find that white makes it easiest for me to see the progress of the flowers or fruit inside, so I'll be buying more white bags.

Originally Posted by korney19

Plus with the cages wrapped, the birds will no longer be able to sit on the cage horizontal wires and peck away.

Birds sitting on the trellis also eat lots of pests, though! The local bird population has been more valuable to me than a nuisance, I would say, and their raids on my tomatoes were easily controlled by covering the fruit. I read that many birds eat more insects in spring and early summer for a higher protein diet when most of them are raising youngsters and then switch to fruit and seeds in the late summer and fall. The problem is that, by that point, tomato plants are way too big to wrap!