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Pest infestation was a painful experience for me. My home was badly infested and it has taken a long time to get rid of all the pests from my home.
Ask Congress.
Divorce her.
Kids?Quote:
Originally Posted by m167ab
Yes, I totally agree with m167ab. Even my home was infested a few years back it was a painful experience I would ever have that was of bed bug bites. To get rid of those bed bugs my parents called professional exterminators to get them out of the house.
They have become self awareQuote:
Originally Posted by m7c4ad
Boston Dynamics shit man.Quote:
Originally Posted by cmcrawfo
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Tenant states they hear something walking around in the attic. Exterminators have set traps with no results / anything caught. Any access to the home is sealed up tighter than a nuns vag, so what to do? Just throw a few sticks of rat poison in there? Is it possible for the rodents to go up inside the walls, in a 1930ish home? I thought there were cross members between the framing that would not allow that to happen.
Many old houses were balloon framed and open from sill to attic. A little water damage near the sill and the red squirrels will open it up and climb up the walls if insulated with fiberglass.Quote:
Originally Posted by liv2ski
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scien...ess-180959484/
Do insects have consciousness? ... probably.
Googled that and I see what your saying. I guess I need to really examine the property again as I swear I have sealed up ever vent on the house with heavy duty fine mesh screening and see no access points. I think I am just going to throw rat poison in the ceiling crawl space. Bummer is, if they die up there I can't get to them to remove.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vt-Freeheel
You will never seal a 1930 house to keep them out. Use the poison for mice or rats. They will die in the wall and the stink from their rotting body will only last for one summer IME
I think I recall that mice can get thru a dime sized hole. Rats will fit thru a quarter sized hole.
you havent lived until you've had to remove a poisoned rat from its access/egress hole...the poison bloats them...they get stuck and die in place...trust me its super fun...Quote:
Originally Posted by steepconcrete
mice and rats are more troublesome than squirrels. You can create exits for squirrels if you know where they are getting in...chicken wire fashioned into a "tube" that is big on the egress hole and gets smaller towards the end (think cone)...this will let a squirrel out (then can get flat for out..not back in) and then they cannot get back into the tube...extend it out from the access hole maybe 12". Hope this helps...pest control companies make big bucks doing these simple things...i worked for one for a while....ill never use one again likely.
Made me lol. Scary times.Quote:
Originally Posted by cmcrawfo
Any pest control Experts here?
Neighbor started keeping chickens last year, and now we have rats in the back yard. Fuck. What a surprise. Saw one last week, todays there were three of them, broad day light, eating seeds that fell out of a birder feeder. So I guess the feeders are coming down. Fuck.
We have a pretty decent squirrel population. I don't suppose there's such a thing as a poison that only affects rats? Shit they just got a puppy too. Many factors here. Fuck!
Any advice besides nuking the coup?!
Bb guns still legal in Canaduh? Get live traps, let the squirrels go and kill the rats?Quote:
Originally Posted by Thaleia
plutonium
Fucking stink bugs
Every spring.
Where do they come from?
We've had a mouse in the house for months. It sits there and eats poison and looks at me. The poison no effect. Put out a baited kill trap where you don't have to look at the thing. The mouse got the peanut butter and got out alive. Covid isn't the only thing evolving more resistant variants. Next is the old fashioned snap trap I guess. If it weren'[t for hanta I'd leave the thing be.
?? the sticky traps work pretty good. Really good in my experience. In the days before the cat.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
The cat is relentless he sit still staking out a spot all night if necessary
I've had good luck getting rid of mice with the standard mouse traps baited with peanut butter. With kitties about poison isn't an option. I personally feel sticky traps are too inhumane. The way I see mouse infestations is, as a home owner, if they are present it is because of your negligence. Therefore I want to get rid of them as pain free as possible. That said the standard mouse traps don't always work perfectly and not all kills are 'clean' or instant.
riser3 I like that suggestion, thank you. We can get air rifles here that shoot up to ~495 fps. Anything more powerful than that I need to get an actual firearms license, which takes 28 + days (45 is the pre covid average). (that is awesome btw, but maybe that's for one of those other threads). I think I'll try one of these lower powered air rifles for fun. (unlike with mice inside) I would have zero remorse if I shot a rat and didn't kill it. I don't fuck with rats.
Fortunately its just the one mouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
hehe
See if anyone in your ‘hood has Rat Terriers for hire?Quote:
Originally Posted by Thaleia
That was awesome. Never knew I'd watch 9 minutes of dogs chasing rats but that was so fun. Highlight of the night. Thank you. Did a google and it looks like these guys are very much in demand in my area. That can't be a good thing.
This thread had at least 3 necro bumps. Impressive for such an inconsequential thread.
People could tell it had potential.
Some of The mink guy videos are pretty good too Thaleia.
this thread deliversQuote:
Originally Posted by Harry
How do we best deal with the Mseries infestation?
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Originally Posted by m53600
^^^Seems like we have a pest problem with all the bots that have been procreating recently on this board…
Edit: Nuclear Option beat me to it
The answer is Nuke From Space, Behead Remains, if Any
Roaches
Cucaracha
Barrata
Fuck those things. Been fighting for two months after a tenant left. Pest guy says the eggs are in the walls, electrical outlet, fridge coils etc. and they will keep hatching.
Fortunately when they show up they are dead or on their back twitching.
This video reminds me of an incident at a worksite in 2002. We were remodeling a couple of houses on a property and this clown doing some excavation work had a terrier and unknown to us left it in the place we weren't currently working on. When we started that project we discovered that the fucking dog had spent its time tearing 20+ holes into the walls trying to get mice.Quote:
Originally Posted by TBS
Wetlands next to us are getting worked up into new lots. I know it’s NIMBY of me and I am total hypocrite, but we shouldn’t keep building on wetlands. Anyway, two rats and one mole so far have been trapped in the yard. Yard is like a war zone, going to have a lot of spring cleaning.
I don’t think this is NIMBY at all. Depends a bit on your local ecosystem, but most wetlands are keystone or anchor ecosystems and should be preserved. Putting low density housing in place of them is poor form IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hood26
Probably a reincarnation of one of your past patientsQuote:
Originally Posted by old goat
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Depending on the state you live in there should be fairly significant protections requiring either on or off site mitigation depending upon the wetland classification. Where do you live?Quote:
Originally Posted by Hood26