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  • Vanity: Fruit Flies and TracFone, Advice requested

    07/26/2023 8:48:44 PM PDT · by Jamestown1630 · 64 replies
    Sorry for the vanity; (and also sorry for the length of this). But I’ve gotten good advice from people here about household problems in the past; and now I have a couple more. 1. For the first time that I can remember, I have had an infestation of fruit flies. We think it may have come from a bag of potatoes, which is something we’ve never bought before – we usually just buy the few single potatoes that we are going to use immediately. We got rid of that bag, and every fresh thing – onions, tomatoes, whatever - that...
  • People Are Sharing The Wildest Behavior They've Seen From People In MLMs, And It's Shocking, Sad, And Everything In Between

    09/12/2022 4:56:35 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 11 replies
    BuxxFeed ^ | Sep 10, 2022 | Shelby Heinrich
    My grandmother's death is not an opportunity to deliver your sales pitch.In case you didn't know, a multilevel marketing company (aka an MLM) is a company that emphasizes both direct sales and recruiting other people to join the company and work under you, so you can receive a percentage of profit from the inventory they buy and sell. MLM's have been around for decades. One of the most well-known MLM's is LulaRoe, a leggings company that has had a ton of scandals in recent years and ultimately had to pay over $4 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed it...
  • What is your best defense for keeping moles out of the yard?

    07/18/2022 2:15:17 PM PDT · by A Cyrenian · 139 replies
    They seem to be on a terror this year.I have tried Grubex. I have used Mole Max. And I have sprayed castor oil and dish soap.We've had ton of rain this year and it seems like everything is getting washed away.Have any tips on trying to reclaim my yard?
  • Keep Squirrels OUT of Your GARDEN

    03/09/2022 7:21:55 AM PST · by orsonwb · 49 replies
    The How Do Gardener ^ | March 8, 2022 | The How Do Gardener
    In this video, Learn how to keep squirrels out of your garden, the ONE thing that works, and all of the others that do not.
  • An urban rat expert has a silver bullet for rodent control

    02/10/2022 9:42:07 AM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 23 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 10 Feb 2022 | Cuneyt Dil
    It's a simple rule-of-thumb to follow when you have a rat problem, according to Corrigan, who has a Ph.D. in urban rats studies and advises cities, including the District. “The rats do not like to chew into bleach tasting anything,” he says. “If the outside of the can smells like bleach to that famous nose of theirs, they're like, 'Well, this ain't food.’”
  • Florida Man Harvests 400 iguana EGGS!! Iguana Hunting in Florida!

    01/28/2022 3:55:34 PM PST · by Hot Tabasco · 54 replies
    YouTube ^ | Jan. 28, 2022 | Iguana Man
    A Florida contractor whose job it is to hunt down and kill the invasive Iguanas that are multiplying exponentially in S. Florida
  • New York has a huge rat problem. These vigilantes with dogs think they can fix it

    12/20/2021 5:40:12 PM PST · by DUMBGRUNT · 51 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 19 Dec 2021 | Adam Gabbatt
    This will come as no surprise to anyone but New York City has a rat problem. The Rats method of rat control – documented in grisly detail online – isn’t for everyone, but it receives scores of requests from New Yorkers each year. In a city this rat strewn, it seems people are willing to try anything. On the other side of the fence we wait: eight people with eight dogs straining at their leashes, and me, standing there with my pants tucked into my socks, holding an iPhone. The dogs, all terriers, have quite literally smelt a rat, and...
  • 'Cambridge Cat Killer': Alleged cat torturer used his race to distract from spree of attacks

    07/03/2021 10:07:21 PM PDT · by Right Wing Vegan · 25 replies
    The Post Millenial ^ | 7/2/2021 | Nick Monroe
    Rashad Gober is a 31-year-old residing in Cambridge, Massachusetts who used the public’s distrust in police departments about racial injustice to try and distract suspicion for a spree of animal cruelty attacks against local cats. Gober entered a not guilty plea to four counts of animal cruelty at his arraignment hearing at Cambridge District Court on Thursday. He’ll be held without bail until his next court date on July 7th. Rashad Gober is a 31-year-old residing in Cambridge, Massachusetts who used the public’s distrust in police departments about racial injustice to try and distract suspicion for a spree of animal...
  • HOW AXIS DEER ARE IMPACTING THE UNITED STATES

    06/19/2021 7:21:31 AM PDT · by SJackson · 56 replies
    Wide Open Spaces ^ | November 30, 2020 | Chelsea Smith
    Axis deer are threatening parts of Texas and other areas in the United States. The axis deer, also known as the chital deer, is regarded as one of the most beautiful breeds of deer, and they're a far cry from the native Texas whitetail deer. What are they? Axis deer (scientific name Axis axis) sport an orange coat dotted with white spots--similar to that of a whitetail fawn--and white patches on their throats. They're classified under the Cervidae family, bearing resemblance to a number of other deer species such as the fallow deer. Axis deer males grow massive antlers, usually...
  • Gardening thread (Especially About Garden Pests) :)

    05/26/2021 3:40:08 AM PDT · by Bill of Rights FIRST · 33 replies
    What are your trials and travails with various garden pests? Hopefully you found a natural(s) solutions to protect the good bugs and birds. I got in a "fight" with a tomato grub last year, and I won! :)
  • Australia's unrelenting mouse plague could last for TWO YEARS as farmers abandon their crops and experts warn rodents are starting to swarm Sydney

    05/25/2021 9:26:26 PM PDT · by Berlin_Freeper · 55 replies
    dailymail.co.uk ^ | 26 May 2021 | AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Australia's out-of-control mouse plague will cut the value of state's winter crop by $1million as the eight month-long scourge continues to worsen, the nation's farmers have warned. The government-funded MouseAlert website shows sightings have doubled since March, with a growing number of mice being sighted in and around Sydney. NSW Farmers Vice President Xavier Martin said farmers were abandoning some paddocks and couldn't defer sowing winter crops any longer. Researchers meanwhile have warned 'without a concerted baiting effort in the next few weeks this could easily turn into a two-year plague event'.
  • Starving Rats Are Cannibalizing Each Other Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic

    04/13/2020 5:02:14 PM PDT · by chief lee runamok · 62 replies
    daily caller ^ | 04/13/2020 | Jason Hopkin
    As thousands of restaurants across the country close down over the coronavirus pandemic and stop discarding their leftovers outside, rats are becoming so starving that they are resorting to all out battles and even cannibalism to survive, according to a rodentologist.
  • Where Wild Turkeys Are So Bold They Knock on the Door for Food

    11/14/2019 12:15:11 AM PST · by Viking2002 · 53 replies
    NY Slimes, Via MSN ^ | 11/14/19 | Tracey Tully
    TOMS RIVER, N.J. — There was a time when Don Kliem enjoyed feeding sunflower seeds and millet to the wild turkeys that wandered near his ranch-style house in Toms River, N.J., a coastal town about 75 miles south of New York. “But then they got very bold,” said Mr. Kliem, 81. “They would knock on the door — peck on it to get our attention.”
  • Eradicating invasive California swamp rats will cost millions, lawmaker says

    09/26/2019 6:52:58 AM PDT · by Boomer · 32 replies
    Fox Business ^ | 9/26/19 | James Leggate
    Why drain the whole swamp when you can just eradicate the giant invasive rats? Rep. Josh Harder, a California Democrat, brought a dead nutria — commonly referred to as a “swamp rat” — to a congressional hearing this week as he sought support for a bill that would direct $7 million to help eradicate the invasive rodent species from his state.
  • BUGGED OUT Deadly ‘super mosquitoes that are even tougher’ accidentally created by scientists

    09/18/2019 7:34:47 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 34 replies
    The Sun UK ^ | 17 Sep 2019, 17:49Updated: 18 Sep 2019, 15:21 | Charlotte Edwards, Digital Technology and Science Reporter
    FULL TITLE: BUGGED OUT Deadly ‘super mosquitoes that are even tougher’ accidentally created by scientists after bungled experiment ============================================================ GENETICALLY modified mosquitoes that were designed by scientists to help populations decrease are actually thriving. This is according to new research that claims the plan to create gene-hacked mosquitoes that have offspring which die immediately has spectacularly backfired and now scientists don't know what will happen next. he modified mosquitoes were released in Jacobina in Brazil and were supposed to mix with the local population and decrease numbers with their weak offspring genetics. Although the wild population did plummet for a...
  • California's Rat Problem Is Still Out Of Control, and Now Sacramento Dems Want to...Ban Rat Poison?

    08/28/2019 4:28:52 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 48 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 28, 2019 | Matt Vespa
    California’s decades-long affair with liberal politics has brought disease—literally. Rats are overrunning parts of the state. It’s only amplified by the rising homelessness crisis. For a region of the country that is smug, wealthy, and condescending to no end about how great they are—they do have a lot of bums in the street, fecal matter in the street, and hypodermic needles in the street. San Francisco is covered in crap. And the solution is quite simple: clean up the damn cities. But that would mean be mean to homeless people or something. Well, they’re ground zero for the rat infestation,...
  • Rat-Infested Cities, Pest Control Industry Concerned With California State Rat Poison Ban

    07/23/2019 9:44:51 PM PDT · by Trump20162020 · 32 replies
    KPIX-TV ^ | July 23, 2019 | Staff
    California is moving toward an all-out rat poison ban statewide. AB-1788 cleared the State Assembly earlier this summer. But the problem with the ban is that some California cities are being overrun by rats.
  • LA Now The ‘City Of Rats’? Report Warns Of ‘Alarming Increase’ In Rodent Population

    07/16/2019 5:36:25 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 52 replies
    cbs2la ^ | 07/16/2019
    “California is being overrun by rodents – and without immediate emergency action by state and local government, we face significant economic costs and risk a public health crisis,” said Carl DeMaio, chairman of Reform California, at a news conference Tuesday at City Hall in downtown Los Angeles. DeMaio highlighted the findings of the group’s new report which cited an increase in the state’s homeless population, along with elimination of the most effective pest control tools, as “significant” factors on the ongoing crisis. The study surveyed nearly two dozen private pest control companies that operate throughout California and found all of...
  • Florida Man Ends Run Covered in Gnats. Here’s How You Can Avoid the Same Fate

    06/20/2019 12:19:09 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 26 replies
    Runner's World ^ | June 17, 2019 | Jordan Smith
    Jon Bates owns Addicted to Fitness, a gym in Naples, Florida. As a personal trainer, he ends his nights by running 3.5 to 4 miles for both mental therapy and as a way to get his workout in. Bates said his friends give him a hard time about being outside in the humidity and heat when he has access to an air-conditioned gym, but he enjoys his outdoor runs, and the chance to sweat in the fresh air. So last Monday, he set out for his usual run, but on a slightly different route. He told Runner’s World he kept...
  • Rats Are Taking over New York City. Thanks, de Blasio!

    05/22/2019 10:32:33 AM PDT · by george76 · 17 replies
    National Review ^ | May 22, 2019 | Kyle Smith
    Probably not the headline you want to run in the first full week of your presidential campaign. ... Fix the subways? Bill de Blasio can’t even fix the potholes. Fix the potholes? He can’t even keep the rats at bay. I suppose he could fill the potholes with the rats. De Blasio’s presidential quest would on the surface appear to be a bit of a curiosity given that after considerable pressing of flesh in Iowa and New Hampshire he remains at 0 percent in the polls. Where do you go with that? “If I work hard, I think I can...