Satsuma under attack

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I’m also having similar trouble with my satsuma tree. I think it may be tree rats or fruit bats. Maybe someone else can chime in

raccoons love some satsumas. they can clean multiple trees out in a night. nothing left but the peelings.

Thought you was saying the town of satsuma was under attack. Whatever it is, them baws can handle it.

You will need to bait if you want dead rats.

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You will need to bait if you want dead rats.

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Or get a few outdoor cats. The property I moved onto used to have a lot of rats. Used to. My satsuma tree is unscathed.

I was amazed to learn that the wif's cats aren't completely useless.

Here are pics of my satsuma tree fruit that is being destroyed. In the first pic, the satsuma on the left still has fruit in it, but the top 1/4 looks like it was cut off. Fruit is still on the inside.

Can squirrels do this, or is the consensus is that it's rats?

My next door neighbor who is an MD is having the same issues with his tree in his yard. He said that he thinks it is some kind of citrus disease. He claims that he had one that was discolored, and picked it off the tree, and he noticed that it was very light, didn't weigh much. He got a knife and cut it in half and there was very little rind on the inside. But he can't come up with an explanation of why some of them are bored out with just the skin left.

Any ideas?

I did notice a hole under my wood fence recently. From the size of the hole, it's being used by a fairly large animal. A racoon does sound like the likely culprit.

That definitely looks like an animal and not a disease to me. As said, set a trap and see what you catch.

Put a game camera