Patty in Wisc

ha ha, I don't think so LOL. I kill my critters.
Yesterday, got 106 & 107. Squirrel 107 trapped before I put bait out! Today my loquat tree was knocked over. It wasn't windy & the pot is big & heavy. hmmm

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D_&_T

What wasn't frozen over the winter in the garage because she never turned heat on, she has just thrown out in the yard to finned for itself.

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Help Abnshrek and Patty, see below!!! Minnesota needs you!

MINNEAPOLIS -- Target Field's wild kingdom has expanded.
Three weeks after a bird of prey stole the show, a squirrel briefly interrupted play in the top of the fourth inning of the Yankees-Twins game.

The squirrel streaked onto the field and charged Twins third baseman Brendan Harris before seeking protection from the rain under the outfield wall.

The squirrel remained on the field as play resumed, running the entirety of the warning track looking for a way out as the crowd chanted "Let's go squirrel!"

Earlier this season, an American Kestrel captivated Twins fans, long accustomed to watching games indoors, by swooping across Target Field, grabbing a moth and devouring it atop the right field foul pole.

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Patty in Wisc

That's funny!

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island cassie

How about these for pesky critters???

My cashew tree is ripening fruit and nuts, and at night the fruit bats come and gnaw on the apples and spoil them. Any that they knock down or that drop in the night, the rats run off with!! My only solution is to go out each night just before dark and pick any nearly ripe fruit, as they ripen REALLY fast.

The dogs just snore away! What do they think I keep them for?

Abnshrek

IC that sounds like me & mockingbirds eating my nectarines & figs.. and where's my dog sleeping. Next year I'm netting them.

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island cassie

Our tree is in an inconvenient place to net - plus it is full of biting ants!! Grrrr!

Abnshrek

Well I sure wouldn't be messin' with no ants from down there, or the one's in panama.. Or the black palm for that matter.... :^)

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island cassie

You are right Migael - their bites are bad! But so far we are winning over the critters with lots of nuts and apples.

Patty in Wisc

Cassie, I wouldn't want to deal w/some of your critters!!
Shrek, I put netting over my raspberries one year & a couple birds got under it - somehow, & were trapped inside. Never again, & w/ no problems.
I set the trap w/ bait, & last 2 nights (mornings) the bait is gone & trap still set. There are also water lily buds in pieces, scattered & chewed up, & broken leaves in pond. Can't be a squirrel.... could I still have coons? Who's taking my bait & not getting trapped????
Grrrrrrrr

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bananimal

Patty --- Right after I started using peanut butter, as advised, the whole chunk of it started disappearing overnight. So one night at 1 AM, having forgotten to put out the garbage can (again), went to check the trap in the dark. Flashlight showed a line of aunts carrying off the bait to the nest.

Checked in the AM and it was all gone. Lots of critters here in S Fla seem to do things unexpectedly. My plastic rat traps have a small cup to hold bait. Couldn't figger out how a 4 footed critter could gouge out all that sticky stuff and not trip the trap. Amazing.

Talk about unexpected - -local family woke up to find a 5 ft gator in the pool area. Another real good reason to NEVER leave food or food residue anywhere in the pool enclosure. And that includes all outdoor trash cans.

Dan

Abnshrek

Well, sounds like the gator is looking to get grilled to me (tastes better than chicken) :^)

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Patty in Wisc

I had gater chili in FL. Couldn't taste the gater cuz it was way too spicy hot - & I like hot.

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browndrake

was working in the garden today. Noticed that a red ant hill that has shown up. The ant were all over one of my tomato plants and had pretty much eaten it to the ground. It was one of my Paul Robeson tomatoes, and I only put out a couple dozen of them...so Monday the ants will meet their demise.

aaron

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Yesterday, I took a chunk of bread & tied fishing line to it ...put pnut butter on & tied it to sides of trap. Put some boric acid around to keep ants off. This a.m. there's ants all over the bait & trap still set. My first pond lily is all chewed up & broken leaves are scattered in pond. I declare another WAR grrrr! I don't see any goldfish either. I have one unripe meyer lemon & if that's gone I'll sit up all night w/ my pellet gun. I thought I got all the coons but I think that's what it is.

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island cassie

Go Patty!!!

bananimal

Patty ---- Sounds like a coon to me too. They get into everything -- plants, fishponds, fruit. You go get 'em. Sounds like I could have used you on point.

BTW --- You mentioned the Meyer lemon. Know anything about the Eureka lemon? Local guru has said that it is the best tasting lemon by far. Thinking of finding a tree for sale. But still haven't tasted the sucker.

Dan

Patty in Wisc

Dan, I think Eureka is the same kind we buy in all the grocery stores.
I'm at Mike's house...last night sitting out on deck in back. There's 16 steps going down to yard. A raccoon peeked around the corner at top step & when he saw us he took off. I was wondering who was eating all the grape jelly I put out in eve for the orioles! By morning it's all gone. Mike's buying a trap today & we will use grape jelly for bait LOL
I'm afraid to go home & see more damage --& what's in the trap there.

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Abnshrek

Well I'm sighted back in with premium ammo #177 and knocked another out of the tree backwards, somehow he crawled back up it.. Definately got lead in duff syndrome.. He'll be slower next time if he don't die in the tree. No recovery, no count.. that's how it goes.. My neighbor says I killed over 200.. lol :^)

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Patty in Wisc

Shrek, what do you do w/ them? Garbage? There's a fishing lure place that will buy squirrel tails. You could be rich by now LOL.

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