Toucans mainly eat ripe fruit, insects, snakes, and nestlings of small birds.
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Deer have very efficient guts and can digest a wide range of vegetation including young tree branches. Fruit trees will also attract deer who will smell the ripe fruit.
No, it will not hurt orange trees to leave the fruit on until it falls off. Many times the oranges will even fall off before they are ripe.
Fruit flies come from outside. They are small enough to pass through screens. They do not spontaneously generate from over ripe/rotting fruit.
Our apricot tree's fruit does not get ripe, but rather the fruit stays green. Do you know why??
Yes. It has a small olive like fruit that turns from green to yellow when ripe, it is edible but probably not very tasty.
Toucans eat a variety of different things. It eats small insects, including butterflies, as well as young birds and fruit,
the ethylene gas emitted by the ripe fruit. Ethylene gas is a plant hormone that triggers the ripening process in fruits. Placing an unripe fruit next to a ripe fruit increases its exposure to ethylene, leading to faster ripening.
Ripe fruit can be red due to the accumulation of pigments such as anthocyanins, which are responsible for the red coloration. This pigment develops as the fruit matures and signals to animals that the fruit is ready to be eaten and dispersed, aiding in seed dispersal for the plant.