If you find any animal that usually eats birds and purchase a plastic version, usually real birds will be instinctual enough to avoid it. These can include snakes, owls hawks, or scarecrows (OK, maybe they don t eat birds normally. But they sure scare the birds for some reason). Most of the time you can purchase these at your local gardening store. Ask around with your neighbors and see if anyone has one that you could borrow. If that doesn t work, rent one from your local store. Before you start chopping away at the tree, you should wear proper eye and face protection in case any wood chips fly towards your eyes. Whenever you operate a power tool, always be sure to wear proper protection for any exposed parts of your body. To make sure that your tree always stays healthy in the long run, you should prune it during winter or spring. Water your tree every two weeks during dry times, and be sure not to hit your tree with a lawn mower or a weed eater because it could severely damage the growth process. Also just make sure that your tree gets plenty of water and plenty of sun, and your growing experience should be just great. Usually you will want to get a ladder so that you can get within spraying distance of all the portions of the tree. Apply the pesticide in even, full sweeps as to hit every piece. Never go over the same part twice, because that is when you start to drip. If you re dealing with a large and well developed tree, you should stand on a ladder under the base of the trunk. Check the rest of the tree very thoroughly. If the eggs were to hatch, you would have a huge amount of moth larvae crawling around through your tree and into your fruits. I don t know about you, but the very thought of this makes me wretch. I once had a friend who was dealing with a very bad moth infestation. They begin to bear fruit after three to five years, so if you are going to buy a dwarf fruit tree from a nursery you should always check and see how old it is. Standard sized fruit trees take up much more area the then any of the smaller tree varieties, and they are also harder to keep manageable and to harvest all of the fruit.