Squirrels! This is exactly how my tomatoes have been decimated. We've had to pick them semi ripe and let them finish ripening indoors. Then the squirrels started in on the green ones.
Now they're starting in on the half ripe muscadine grapes, leaving skins all over the ground. Unlike tomatoes, the grapes can't be picked early. There probably won't be any muscadine jelly put up this year.
Time for depopulation with no regrets.
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