Thread: Mangos

Originally Posted by CraigE

Love Mangoes, I know it hurts to see your prized fruit destroyed, but disagree with the anti flying fox stance. They are a native animal, and a dosile beautiful one at that. If you really want the fruit get some nets.
Sorry but if you dont like native animals may be time to find somewhere else to live. Remember we are actually impinging on their native environment not the other way around.

My family has been in Australia since 1830. Yours?? They The Fruit Bats are in plague proportions over here in Queensland...costing millions to apple,stone fruit industry as well as to mango's.Yes some are netted not only for Bats but for hail and this year on the granite belt hailstones as large as oranges wrecked the nets and to replace them costs big dollars.Have you a bat problem in Esperance? Have you had to live in close promixity to one of their colonies and just smelt them.Also your beloved bat has been recorded as a carrier of a virus that kills humans and has done so here in Queensland as recent as last year .State Government advice is not to handle them even if they are injured...wildlife carers have died from their bite.So lets have a constructive debate on what to do when they are in their present plague proportions.Sorry from me too.
John ( disco 44 )

Originally Posted by Disco44

My family has been in Australia since 1830. Yours?? They The Fruit Bats are in plague proportions over here in Queensland...costing millions to apple,stone fruit industry as well as to mango's.Yes some are netted not only for Bats but for hail and this year on the granite belt hailstones as large as oranges wrecked the nets and to replace them costs big dollars.Have you a bat problem in Esperance? Have you had to live in close promixity to one of their colonies and just smelt them.Also your beloved bat has been recorded as a carrier of a virus that kills humans and has done so here in Queensland as recent as last year .State Government advice is not to handle them even if they are injured...wildlife carers have died from their bite.So lets have a constructive debate on what to do when they are in their present plague proportions.Sorry from me too.
John ( disco 44 )

Yes actually, though it has absolutely nothing to do with the debate my heritage dates back to the early 1800's and much further down one tract. The issue is purely to do with your mango tree. Orchardists etc are a different issue and my BIL is actually in this business and we have similar problems with other native animals in WA also, but just going off cause you planted a mango tree and now the native animals like it is just not right either. I have had trees decimated by parrots etc but while annoying I certainly would not want to destroy them all for the sake of a bit of fruit. More than aware of the viruses they have, but apart from eating fruit and some noise they are fairly innocuous. There are solutions, it just depends if you are prepared to spend the cash and/or have the patience.

Originally Posted by weeds

bowen mango's....best by far

just picked up a bag from a van selling them on the side of the road.....will bring a box or two back from rockhampton in a week or so

Way back whemn I was about eight years old, the family went to Sydney for a Christmas holiday with rellies. I was astounded to see mangoes being sold in shops. I could not understand why people would pay for something that was freely available and being shovelled into the rubbish bins where we were living then.

uummmmm Bat could eat them all day. deep fried. you guys are so lucky up north..

Durn can you guys get that up there? any one want to send me some ??

Originally Posted by dm_td5

Thankfully the Cockies, Fruit bats and other sundry wildlife have once again finished dropping all the mangos in my back yard and the tree is at long last bare of fruit again. Can't stand mangos, the taste of the juice actually makes me physically nauseous, my wife doesn't like them either, so we just let the wild life have free reign and contemplate removing the tree from the yard.

Best thing to do with mango trees is to turn them into furniture.

There, that'll upset some of you!

Yep, have to agree.

Hundred of flying foxes here. I love the look of them and the way they are just so silent when flying.

Mmmm, Mangoes.....the only thing Queensland has going for it

I take it Bowen = Kensington Pride ?

R2E2 are a poor substitute IMO.

Originally Posted by rick130

Mmmm, Mangoes.....the only thing Queensland has going for it
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true, thay did ruin the banana by puting a bend in them

Originally Posted by clean32

true, thay did ruin the banana by puting a bend in them

Yep they closed down all the Bending factories and put many" Banana Benders" out of work.