Deer are generally less active during the summer months. Warmer weather, the culmination of the birthing season and an abundance of readily available food result in deer moving and foraging less. As Autumn approaches deer become more active. Autumn is the mating season for deer and is also the time during which they pack on body weight to help sustain them through the long winter ahead.
Autumn Means Increased Deer Activity
Autumn is the time during which male deer, known as bucks, will engage in the behavior referred to as “signposting”. That territorial marking activity may include rubbing their antlers on trees and urinate on tree trunks. That activity and other mating related behavior results in deer moving around more, which in-turn results in the need for increased calorie intake. Needing more calories for daily activities and for storing winter fat means deer may come into yards, gardens and landscaping to find more nutrient rich food. That means that your garden and/or landscaping may be in increased danger of deer damage.
Deer are Hungry, but not Stupid
Despite the pressures that deer have in the autumn to find and consume more nutrition they remain very attentive to potential threats from predators. That means their sensitive noses are always working to detect the scent of lurking animals such as coyotes which are a deer’s most feared predator. As a matter of fact deer have 297 million olfactory receptors which is nearly 6 times the number of human receptors. A major portion of a deer’s highly developed sense of smell is dedicated to keeping deer one step ahead of potential predators.
Leveraging Nature to Keep Deer Out
Deer Repellent Packs put Nature’s Most Powerful Force in Your Hands
It is possible to take advantage of a deer’s strong sensitivity to the scent of predators to optimize your Autumn deer repellent strategy and keep deer from destroying your fall garden harvest. Making your property appear to be a territory marked by a coyote, you are sending marauding deer the signal that they interpret to mean it is an unsafe place for them to enter. How do you turn your property into a coyote’s territory? By simply hanging 100% all natural Deer Repellent Packs around the area you want to protect. The all-weather packs emit the scent of actual coyote urine. Importantly, the scent lasts for up t0 90 days and works in all weather conditions.
Enjoying Your Fall Harvest- You or the Deer?
Autumn means deer are under increasing pressure to find sources of good nutrition and that may mean they are more likely to invade your gardens and landscaping for ripe, calorie dense food. Protecting your property from deer damage with all-natural deer repellents may mean the difference between the deer enjoying your fall harvest and you enjoying it.
