hardware cloth
Americannoun
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Gardeners at the Arboretum and CUH have taken to constructing hardware cloth enclosures around all new plantings — a laborious task, and a distracting garden feature among all your beautiful beds and borders.
From Seattle Times • May 20, 2023
If you’re worried about rodents entering the bin, the department suggests lining the bottom of the bin with a hardware cloth.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2021
We were told to provide lots of ventilation, so we made a coop that has an entire wall of hardware cloth.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2021
For rarer or more expensive bulbs, Mr. Hsu said, the staff creates boxlike underground cages from hardware cloth for protection.
From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2020
The traps usually were faced north so that the attached number-ten cans, which served as shelters, cast shadows over the hardware cloth runways during midday.
From A Population Study of the Prairie Vole (Microtus ochrogaster) in Northeastern Kansas by Martin, Edwin P.
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