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To: brigette
Sounds like you need more cats. Lousy company good for keeping bugs out. Good luck, those bites get nasty.
13 posted on 05/09/2003 6:51:14 PM PDT by discostu (A cow don't make ham)
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To: discostu
Guinnea Hens=Spider eaters

Spiders can be amazingly rugged. I find tons of them inside my 1000lb. hay bales. They are in the hayfield when cut. They survive the drying/crimping, raking, acid spray preservative, and then baleing to a few thousand pounds PSI. Many of the bugs in the bales even survive the winter. I've opened a bale in february and found grasshoppers, beetles, spiders, etc... in a sort of suspended animation. They start moving once the enormous pressure is released when I open the bale.

When I had about 20 guinnea hens I hardly ever saw a single bug. They are gone now due to biosecurity measures. Soon after I noticed the Brown Recluse in our raspberry patches last season.

28 posted on 05/09/2003 7:09:58 PM PDT by blackdog (Peace, love, and understanding.....$10 bucks a hit in America.)
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