|
Try Citronella.
|
What if she's too busy?
|
Ask her friend salmonella
|
Ruddy Sun's got to you lot!!!
Funny though. Made I *itter............Martin.
|
|
|
Don't you mean her two friends, Sam and Ella?
|
|
|
|
>>> What if she's too busy? <<<
Then bug off!
|
|
|
|
|
all manner of Moths, from the carpet variety >>
It took me four years to finally rid them from my home. The final successful attempt involved fumigating the house:
1. lifting the carpet edges and spraying under liberally with moth killer spray,
2. emptying all wardrobes and spraying inside; while leaving the clothes out in the room to air,
3. spraying the whole house liberally with moth killer spray
4. leaving loads of mothballs all around the house
5. above procedure carried out just immediately before leaving on 2 weeks holiday.
6. came back to house stinking of chemicals, so left doors and windows open for a few hours.
7. moths eradicated for good.
|
jbif, thanks for your sensible comments vs mine while keeping cool with G&T and watching tennis! A sensible question for you re fumigation; didn't you worry a bit about any fumes affecting you and yours? I remember a sinister light brown waxy strip that lived in a plastic mesh box, called Vapona. It gave off fumes for 6 months in one's house and killed all flies. As the inhabitants were inhaling it, as well as the flies, and it isn 't sold any more I wonder if that was a good thing to have in one's house?
|
question for you re fumigation; didn't you worry a bit about any fumes affecting you and yours? >>
Asbestos, nuclear reactors, petrochemical plants, DDT, insecticides on crops, 3rd world countries with frightening diseases and preventative potent medicines, not to mention disintegrating turbine blades and a few other hazards - I have experienced them all, and one day one of them will probably impact on my health.
p.s. As I said, the fumigation was done while I was away on holdiay.
Edited by jbif on 01/07/2009 at 18:50
|
|
|
|
Cypermethrin (sold as "Protector C"). That'll do 'em.
Look for woolly bears along the edges of your carpets, especially where it's dark. Remove and squash (vacuuming is good to just remove them). The adult carpet beetle can be seen on windows (looks like an odd, small, round, yellow-brown ladybird with a pattern of "scales"). Clothes moths, swat 'em as soon as you see them, and look out for their cases. dangling from things (even the ceiling) - remove & destroy. Look very carefulli in your airing cupboard, or wardrobes. Remove stuff. Inspect. Replace. Spray the edges and corners of your carpets. Wage war!
|
Vapona was utterly harmless, but was proved to cause cancer in rats if they ate vapona in huge quantities. The same is true if you feed rats with air with 22% oxygen in it instead of the normal 20%.
Since it was banned, moths have become a huge problem - they are endemic in London.
www.pestcontroldirect.com sell it in bulk. They also sell fumigation devices - clickon the Fortefog mini fumer and it takes you to a link to the fortefog pro. Definitely a thing to do as you leave to go on holiday (but beware the neighbours don't call the firebrigade).
Moth balls are a waste of time if you have moths. They deter adult moths, but do nothing for eggs and larvae already munching your best suit and favourite cashmere. They also STINK.
I am hoping for the best with Protector C in my wardrobes and drawers.
|
I am still suffering from the Mill Moths introduced into my house by the sloppiness of the birdseed supplier three years ago.
The sack of sunflower seed was infested with them and it took some time before I realised where they were coming from, Latest casualty is a rather nice goatskin rug which I've had to throw away.
The £10 'compensation' and replaced goods bear no relation to all the aggravation caused.
|
|
Be careful if you use the neuro-toxin Cypermethrin - especially if there are bairns in the house ... Personally I'd try the o'natural route 1st.
|
Somebody's got to say it.
Try airing the wallet more frequently..;)
Honestly i do have every sympathy...different pests here, just magpies and i've eradicated them completely, till the next batch move in.
|
Try airing the wallet more frequently..;)
No Wallet here. Never carried one. The Tea leaves spot it and hey presto. Just carry the 'Wad' of both Fivers together!
I am working on the Magpies, but they seem very canny this year. May get a Larsen trap though.
Best reg's...........Martin.
|
Beware killing magpies.
The basic principle is that it is illegal to kill magpies. Unless you have a reason to kill them, in which case it is permitted under general licence. Protecting game birds if you are a keeper is certainly a reason. Protecting garden birds is possibly a reason. This distinction has, SFAIK, not yet been tested in court, beware some busybody reporting you to the RSPCA and your becoming a test case.
Beware also, that if you are trying to trap magpies, and instead trap a crow, you have to release the crow. And vice versa.
|
|
|
I am working on the Magpies but they seem very canny this year. May get a Larsen trap though.
That's what I want, but a) it's getting late this year, and b) where to get a bait bird (female)?
|
I always found an egg (hen's) to be more effective than a decoy bird.
Once you have caught your first bird, then you have a decoy.
With decoy birds, the ideal is one that is from a different part of the county. The others will recognise its call as being "not local" and turn up to hound it out of town. That's when they get caught...
So, get friendly with a Larsen trap owner from somewhere else, and swap birds. Some decoys seem pretty happy living in a cage; others hate it and soon fade.
|
So get friendly with a Larsen trap owner from somewhere else and swap birds. Some decoys seem pretty happy living in a cage; others hate it and soon fade.
BUT you MUST provide fresh water for the 'Call' bird and visit the trap at least twice a day.
MD.
|
Magpies...beautiful bird but unbelievably deadly to our songbirds.
I use a Larsen during the breeding period to help protect the songbirds, as said it's very effective if you have an out of area call bird, the rest of the year i use other methods.
And i do go out of my way to look after the captive, good food, cover, clean water etc, and my Larsen is full size...most important, some for sale are undersized and illegal.
If you have a magpie problem you'll be amazed just how many small birds (eggs and fledglings) they destroy.
It's now about 2 or 3 years since we declared war on them, when we started we had almost no songbirds left in our area, this year the trees in and around our garden are teeming including at least one pair of gtr spotted woodpecker, and many finches of all sorts, a true delight.
A thought MD...more songbirds may mean less moths.
|
Magpies are, indeed, beautiful birds. But as correctly pointed out they are, overall, a force for evil rather than good.
|
...Magpies are, indeed, beautiful birds. But as correctly pointed out they are, overall, a force for evil rather than good....
See a few magpies picking at road kill on the roads around the caravan in leafy North Yorkshire, but not many on site, so plenty of songbirds.
One bird I don't like is the moorhen.
Two reasons:
1) They jump up on my bird feeder and empty the seeds all over the place.
2) They occasionally jump on the CC3 and because they have boney feet like a chicken, they leave scratch marks. Grrr....
|
|
|
|
|
