Like when I was vacuuming up ladybugs? There's a valve in the cleaner bag so I didn't think anything of it. I went back an hour later and they were crawling all over the hose.. You'll be lucky if it doesn't beat you home!![]()
Like when I was vacuuming up ladybugs? There's a valve in the cleaner bag so I didn't think anything of it. I went back an hour later and they were crawling all over the hose.. You'll be lucky if it doesn't beat you home!![]()
I'm sure that there is a story behind why you were vacuuming up ladybugs in the first place. Did they invade the house? Your truck...?Like when I was vacuuming up ladybugs? There's a valve in the cleaner bag so I didn't think anything of it. I went back an hour later and they were crawling all over the hose.
Yeah, the closer you get to raccoons, the less cute they begin to appear. If you have ever trapped a large boar raccoon in a cage and go to pick it up, you honestly begin to fear for your own safety. The growl they emit sounds like a mountain lion.For those of you with additional vermin beyond raccoons such as possums, opossums are a carrier for a disease called EPM that can cause debilitating disease in horses if left untreated.
Unlike raccoons, opossums rarely carry rabies as their body temperature is too low for the virus to reproduce well.
We do everything we can to minimize attractions to raccoons, skunks, and opossums. No outdoor feed, no outdoor garbage, and no corn. When raccoons get angry they certainly put the fear into me. I think that for such a small animal they pack a whole lot of ferocity.
All the best,
Peter
What I call ladybugs are something released at some point in an attempt to get rid of another pest, I don't recall what. They are bad here in late winter, getting into houses by the hundreds. They are an annoyance just because there are so many; flying into your face, landing in your pot of spagetti sauce on the stove, dying and leaving carcasses everywhere.I'm sure that there is a story behind why you were vacuuming up ladybugs in the first place. Did they invade the house? Your truck...?
They migrate and overwinter in a couple places near here, and it is wild to walk down the trail and see what looks like all of the trees and shrubs around you are alive, covered with moving, shimmering bark, packed solid with ladybugs so densely that they are all crawling over each other.
All the best,
Peter
(Who is currently waiting for the annual influx to turn up and start munching on the aphids in the garden...)
The ground hog was crying after being shot according to the post.Cryingover a ground hog?Jeessh, as a teen I used to trap them for sport and club the fers in the head or shoot the little destructive suckers.
Can't imagine crying over a damn GH. I try to run them over if I'm in the truck.
That's hilarious. Thank you for sharing that. Some of the folks get way too serious on here. If you've still got your major limbs after an event, say thank you to some deity and move on. And for heaven's sake, laugh a little bit...Like when I was vacuuming up ladybugs? There's a valve in the cleaner bag so I didn't think anything of it. I went back an hour later and they were crawling all over the hose.