Escalation of Squirrel Evil

The squirrels around here learned to eat citrus this year. Slowly, the oranges disappeared off the tree; we could watch the partially-eaten ones on the yard or the ground disappear over the course of a few days. Bad, bad new trick. I had hoped it would end there. Squirrels wouldn't possibly eat lemons, right? I have a lovely Meyer lemon tree which up until now, has always been covered with fruit. All I need to do when I need a lemon is go out and pick one, and one year's crop keeps on the tree and lasts until the next year's crop is ready.

Not so any more. I went outside today and spotted the evidence. The squirrels don't seem to be able to actually pick the lemons, so they are gnawing them right off the tree.

Evil. I suspect I'll just have to go pick them all and freeze the zest and juice.