Pests

Bird · Oct 22, 2001

I don't know anything about Juicy Fruit gum for moles, but I do know that a golf course down on the coast used to give golfers bubble gum and ask them to unwrap it and put it in every gopher hole they found on the course; claimed the gophers would eat it and couldn't digest or pass it and it would kill them. They quit that practice after some of the animal rights folks found out about it and complained that it was cruelty to the gophers.

Bird

StoneHeartFarm · Oct 22, 2001

We got the lady bugs. Had one get in my dust mask while I was sanding drywall last week. Kept feeling something tickling my mouth. Good thing it was just a lady bug, coulda been a bee! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

SHF

JayC · Oct 22, 2001

I cut grass again today. Lots of leaves and ladybugs. Our boat is the shed now for the winter, and had to slide it over so I could get the tractor out to cut. When I moved it over, at least 100 of them dumb bugs fell out of the jackstand. There were so many when I'd step down on the cement I could hear a "crunch." /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif They were all over on the tractor so I had to try and get them off. They were on the all around the wheels too. I got most off, but there were a few in the engine too. They got fried to crisp. I couldn't get those. Oh well. Every year alot always groups in the corner in my bedroom. They stay there all winter. They must eventually starve because they never move. They also like to congregate under the light in my room in the cover. They eventually get fried to. A pitty.

Bird · Oct 22, 2001

Things are obviously very different back in the northeast. I always see several, not a lot, of ladybugs in the vegetable garden in the Spring and Summer; don't know where they come from or where they go, but I never even see any of them any other time or place. But now grasshoppers and crickets are another matter./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif I would have traded with you until I read this thread, but at least I can keep nearly all the grasshoppers and crickets out of the house./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird

StanInCalif · Oct 22, 2001

It must get worse the farther west you go. I've had to buy ladybugs. I wish I could entice some of those excess beetles in the northeast out here. I have lotsa lucious aphids for them, and if they run out of those, I can offer cottony cushion scale, a major citrus pest, which some ladybird beetles consider a delicacy. It wouldn't bother me a bit if this place was crawling with ladybugs and gopher snakes.

jinman · Oct 25, 2001

John, I haven't bought my carport yet, but I have been busily building my pad on a sloping hillside. I think I may go for the thirty-footer with the storage room on the back. I need all the storage I can get while I build my house. This weekend, I'll be beginning a retainer wall on one side of my pad because all I have for fill is white sand and the low side of the hill I filled is 2-1/2' below the high side. When I get my site finished, I'll compare Lonestar with local suppliers and then make my decision. All of them have similar designs. The shipping cost you mentioned is unbelievable. I'd almost bring them to you for that price./w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

JimI

jinman · Oct 25, 2001

Those animal rights folks go a little far about everything. Pretty soon they'll probably be trying to make fishing illegal because it is cruel. Just when you think they can't go further "out there' they come up with some other ridiculous idea. I don't suspect they found too many golf courses that had much sympathy for gophers./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

JimI

Harv · Oct 25, 2001

Don't know about you fellers, but the attached pictures show the pests that have been annoying the hell out of me lately.

Any suggestions?

Richard · Oct 25, 2001

Harv,
I've been using my vacume on my ladybugs. Your welcome to try that approach, but I think your varments would suffer MUCH more if instead, we simply unleashed the IRS on them.

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Richard

MossRoad · Oct 25, 2001

We don't have those. We have the Asian ladybird beetles. Did you find them under a rock? Call the Orkin man.

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