chipmunks in the garden
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Comments (10)Like you Tox,I don't trust many when it's my health at stake. If exterminators don't retain records of what they use,they should have to going foward. How many times have we found a silver bullet then find out years latter it's actualy a poison pill? It would make things much easier to fix if records of where it was used exsisted. Here's a case that makes a point about trusting exterminators. Several years ago ( long after it was banned) an exterminator in Paris Tx was found to be useing cloradane in restraunts, public schools and other places where he had contracts. That makes me think he would use nucular waste in 6023's food plot if it was expedent. We learn from this conversation about the hornets that when it comes to things that annoy us,eradication isn't always the best answer. I don't consider myself a "Greenie" by a long measure but if God saw need to put a creature on earth who am I to remove it simply because it might annoy me. That sometimes makes me very unpopular with the lady"I stays with" if it involves snakes or lizards....See MoreCeraria Pygmaea - bird food???
Comments (7)I feel your pain. There are zillions of squirrels all around my apartment. They'll occasionally take a bite out of a leaf (their favorite is Pleiospilos nelii), but the real frustration comes from them burying seeds in my pots! Not only do they wreak havoc digging the holes, but now I've got loquat seedlings popping up in all of my larger pots! On a slightly related topic, does anyone know the toxicity of Adromischus? About a month ago, I found my tiny little A. alstonii missing about half its leaves. Right next to the pot was a dead bird. Coincidence? or a poisoning? I can only speculate....See Morewhere do chipmunks live?
Comments (6)Chipmunks live underground. They don't hibernate in the winter like say bears, they just live in their underground dens. And that's why they must store so much food....to sustain them over the winter. You will never ever see any dirt outside a chipmunk hole as they would be a telltale sign to a preditor. As they dig their hole, they take the excess dirt in their cheek pouches and "hide" it somewhere. I doubt if you have chipmunks living under your mud room...more likely just using the spot for a temporary hiding place. I wouldn't worry at all. Your dog just knows something is under there. Chipmunks in my yard like to hide in the rain down spouts....drives my dog crazy....so I got an extra piece of drain pipe and hid it in the bushes, gives them a place to hide from the evil neighbor with the air rifle. Linda C...See MoreGroundhogs/ chipmunks in garden
Comments (2)I just bought a spray called Neptunes Harvest Hot Pepper Wax Insect Repellent because something ate all the leaves off the bush beans, etc. Plus I have an apple tree with a ton of apples that I would like to get some apples from this year. The squirrels and deer work together in eating most of them. The squirrels will chew and cut the apples' stems and the apples drop on the ground. The reviews said this spray and pepper sprays in general were good to repel squirrels. The wax helps it adhere to the fruit and leaves. I haven't tried it yet but the reviews were good. We trapped and released 5 groundhogs last year to a location miles away, but we still have a problem this year. My husband wants to shoot them. We're rural so it's safe. I've been hesitant to do that for years, but I've had enough. A couple of the larger ones, and I do mean large, were vicious when my husband was handling the cages last year. I talked to wild life professionals who will trap and remove them, but by law they have to kill them. The fee wasn't cheap either, so I guess if my husband wants to do the job for nothing I'll let him go for it. My neighbor has horses and the GH burrows are dangerous and can trip a horse. They're nasty buggers.My husband scattered some granular stuff I picked up at Lowes, but it didn't do much good. Not sure if my husband put enough around the vegetable beds. Coyote urine might work . You'd have to get that and the hot pepper wax over the internet or at a good farm supply store. I got my wax from Amazon....See More- 18 years ago
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