Bird-X® Garden Nets

It's a pretty tough material. Unless your squirrels have access to box cutters, I think you're okay. One thing about birds (and maybe squirrels, too) is if the netting is stretched directly over a ripe fruit, and there's any place for the bird to land or dive bomb, you may lose a few pieces because they can still bite through the netting and get chunks out through the holes. That being said, I would say I lost much less fruit than I did before netting the tree, and it was well worth the purchase price.

I have a cat. He tries to go under the netting if it isn't tied to the base of the
tree.

We have cherry trees but in a stiff breeze the net creeps out of place.
Tree is too large to tie net to trunk. We gather a little net and clip on
spring hand clamps that have some weight. It helps.

I tried the birdx net for my cherry trees just one season. I found it difficult covering a tree with a net, so this year I switched to a bird sound system that is supposed to scar the birds and keep them away, something a nearby professional orchard uses. This is considerably more expensive, but at least I no longer have to get up on a ladder for the net.

The Birdx net did work, and no birds got caught in it (we have very few hummingbirds and I've never seen any near my fruit trees). I simply did not like getting up on a ladder to put it up and take it off.

I hope this helps.

If you tie the netting to the bottom of the tree the birds should not be able to get caught. You could also use something on the netting to frighten the birds like metal ribbon.

It depends on the crop you're protecting and what birds you're trying to keep pout
I've had the best results with bringing the netting to the ground though. Birds will get under the net to get our cherries if the net's not down far enough. But with grapes it seems to work OK just being draped over the vines.

I’ve had really good luck with mine for 2 summers. We have a fair amount of storms and it held up just fine

I can’t speak to health risks to humans but I have found quite a few snakes and birds stuck in the netting. The snakes get tangled to the point they have to be cut out. The birds tend to find an open spot at ground level and get trapped and often can’t find their way out. Hanging that netting has definitely been bad for my local wildlife population.

Yes. They cut easily with scissors. We do that to cover multiple trees or just have different sections of the same tree. We use twistems from grocery store, to tie them together.

You have to tie the bottom to the tree or limb. Some times they will work to
get in, but not often. I have not had one get ensnared to the exterior. This is
a good quality product.