Rodents

[eightbanger]

Have you asked if they want to be board members?

[epashhans]

Originally Posted by bruceman1968

KEL As a smart alec I will recommend .pic 1. And as a serious answer I will recommend pic 2...I caught 3 with the bucket and the corn snake got the rest. With the 5 gal bucket drill a hole through the corn cob then string the wire through and when the critter puts his feet on it, it spins and the rodent falls in to the bucket. You can put 3-5 inches of water in the bottom and the rodent will die. I didn't use water so I relocated the critters elsewhere. Then clean out the nest. Your truck is a DD so just put the bucket on the pass side floor in front of the seat and in a night or two or 3 you should have caught the mice. My cousins use this method on the farm and they have trapped 100s over the years....

We have done the same thing with a pop can and then you put peanut butter on the can. Then we put a stick down to the ground from the edge of the bucket. They go up, reach out to get the peanut butter, it rolls and in they go. Works pretty good. Water and dead mice gets really nasty, really quick. Especially in a hot shed in the summer!

[tim21391]

we bought a 66 mustang that we are going to restore when i get my truck done.. and it was sittin in a barn/car port for years so we knew that there was something in there so the car had a small bear trap in the trunk we found.. put peanut butter on it and about an hour later we had this caught.. it was still alive so we beat it to death with a screw driver

[DPowers]

When we bought our house it had been vacant for an extended period of time. They had "winterized" the toilets with antifreeze. I turned the water on and flushed the commodes. One was running slow. I ended up fishing 20 some "pickled" mice out of the trap.

[292farmer]

mmmm pickled mice yum ive found a chipmunk(live) clogging the carb on my c60 he musta been sleeping in intake then got sucked in? was stuck in butterflys took us ten mins to figure out why that normally torquy 401v6 was acting like a honda

[treveiger]

if your storing it or not driving it very often get a truck cover an a big heavy duty tarp to wrap around your truck an drive your tuck onto the tarp then put the truck cover on your truck an lift the tarp over your truck(with the truck cover on the truck to prevent it from hurting the paint) then strap the tarp all around the truck so you wont have to worry about it blowing off an put rat posoin an everything else you can think of around the covered truck to keep the rats from getting in your truck.

[lt704]

We had aproblem with mice getting into our camper during off season. We bought whole cloves ( at the dollar store ) and put them on paper plates inside the camper, mice gone, no bad smell.

[Lippyp]

TBH I think the main thing is to keep the population down as a whole so bait and traps all year round to knock the whole population down helps.

[treveiger]

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[nyncompute]

Ive found rodent nesting material from the days of the po. Although I've found more of those dirt wasp type nests than I can count. What the hell are those things anyway? Found them everywhere. lol

[flashed]

I keep a couple of buckets without a lid in my shop with a little bit of anti freeze in them (no pets ) and keep baits and glue traps scattered around outside .Have not had a problem with them in a while .

[nvrsatisfied]

last winter i had to much stuff on the shop floor, for the mice to hide behind. so i would turn out all the lights but one. put about a spoonful of peanut butter on the floor in the lighted area, while me and my son hid in the shadows with BB guns and let the good times begin.

my son is now one of the best 8yr old shooters you could ever meet

(dang mice are part of why i have put my build on a small hold. been dumping money into the shop to get it cleaned up and have good proper storage...they tore up all kinds of stuff i had setting around..)

[GOPAPA]

I have lived on Lopez Island and I know what you mean about mice in your area .. I think the things like stricky pads or traps or moth balls are best because I know from expericence that where you have a lot of rodents like mice you dont want to put any bait out as it will draw many more to the area .. also the wire mesh under the cowl is a very good idea ..

[1ATony]

I had a mouse run up the car cover on my Mustang last year,so what I do is let my two cats and Beagle play in the garage a few days a week to scare them away.

[heavy71chevy]

Four Rat traps baited with penut butter and antifreeze took care of my mice problem in my old 66' elco

[bestchevyfan]

PUT A SNAKE UNDER THE SEAT HE WILL EAT THEM. LATER

[68shortstep]

Nyncompute: "Although I've found more of those dirt wasp type nests than I can count. What the hell are those things anyway?"

Those are the incubators / nests for next years' wasps. The wasps are what we always called "mud daubers" or "dirt daubers" when I was a kid on the farm.

The adult wasps (females) catch spiders by stinging them, & then carry them to the mud nest, & then lay an egg on the sleeping spider & seal them up inside the mud nest. Spider is in suspended animation & the wasp egg hatches into a larvae in the spring, & the spider gets to be the guest of honor at the banquet. The baby wasp eats the spider, matures & bores his way out of the mud, & is the next years' adult wasp.

Find a mud nest in the autumn or winter that hasn't been bored-out with holes & break it open. It'll be filled with dozens of sleeping spiders ........

Yuck !!!!!!!!!!! But that's how it works. Nature's plan.

Google: http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/bmuddaub.html

[nyncompute]

Originally Posted by 68shortstep

Nyncompute: "Although I've found more of those dirt wasp type nests than I can count. What the hell are those things anyway?"

Those are the incubators / nests for next years' wasps. The wasps are what we always called "mud daubers" or "dirt daubers" when I was a kid on the farm.

The adult wasps (females) catch spiders by stinging them, & then carry them to the mud nest, & then lay an egg on the sleeping spider & seal them up inside the mud nest. Spider is in suspended animation & the wasp egg hatches into a larvae in the spring, & the spider gets to be the guest of honor at the banquet. The baby wasp eats the spider, matures & bores his way out of the mud, & is the next years' adult wasp.

Find a mud nest in the autumn or winter that hasn't been bored-out with holes & break it open. It'll be filled with dozens of sleeping spiders ........

Yuck !!!!!!!!!!! But that's how it works. Nature's plan.

Google: http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/bmuddaub.html

Thats so weird ..who knew.. I've tore a few apart and guess what I found in them..spider skeletons.lol. Learn something new every day.
I have to get out of the desert and see more of the world.