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Frogs
Hello. I am fairly new to the gardening scene and I am really enjoying
myself. However, I do not do well with bugs and other creepy crawlers. I am noticing a lot of small frogs. Is there any type of repellent I can use for hopping creatures? -- Thank You. Michelle |
Michelle wrote:
Hello. I am fairly new to the gardening scene and I am really enjoying myself. However, I do not do well with bugs and other creepy crawlers. I am noticing a lot of small frogs. Is there any type of repellent I can use for hopping creatures? A heron will take care of the frogs and chickens will take care of the "bugs". -- Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington USDA Zone 8 Sunset Zone 5 |
You actually want to keep frogs. They eat alot of bugs and are totally
harmless to vegetation. I don't know of any repellents, only natural ones. Remove ponds and wet areas and they'll move on. Snakes eat frogs but then you're adding another creepy crawler. -al sung Hopkinton, MA Zone 6a |
On 24 Jul 2005 20:16:31 -0700, "Alan Sung" wrote:
You actually want to keep frogs. They eat alot of bugs and are totally harmless to vegetation. I don't know of any repellents, only natural ones. Remove ponds and wet areas and they'll move on. Snakes eat frogs but then you're adding another creepy crawler. No, the snakes aren't the first step. First, she'll need special lizards. THEN, to wipe out the lizards, she'll need to unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. Then she'll need a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat. The beautiful part is that when wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death. |
Stay inside the condo, you have no business outdoors.
Amphibians worldwide are under severe enviornmental pressures. You grandchildren will likely ask you "what's a frog?" after they have gone extinct. |
In article rBXEe.5524$dM3.4531@trnddc04, "Michelle"
wrote: Hello. I am fairly new to the gardening scene and I am really enjoying myself. However, I do not do well with bugs and other creepy crawlers. I am noticing a lot of small frogs. Is there any type of repellent I can use for hopping creatures? Frogs tend to be numerous on their way to seasonal breeding ponds, then disperse again very thinly over an extensive area; then baby frogs are numerous upon emerging from the ponds, but will soon dwindle in numbers from dispersal & predation. It's almost always temporary that they are numerous. The worst I've seen it was when Western toads emerged from ponds & lakes, wee toads about one-inch long migrating en masse on rainy evening, so thick that peoples' lawns were totally covered. But three days later you had to look hard to find even one. -paghat the ratgirl -- Get your Paghat the Ratgirl T-Shirt he http://www.paghat.com/giftshop.html "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot." -Thomas Jefferson |
"paghat" wrote in message ... In article rBXEe.5524$dM3.4531@trnddc04, "Michelle" wrote: Hello. I am fairly new to the gardening scene and I am really enjoying myself. However, I do not do well with bugs and other creepy crawlers. I am noticing a lot of small frogs. Is there any type of repellent I can use for hopping creatures? Frogs tend to be numerous on their way to seasonal breeding ponds, then disperse again very thinly over an extensive area; then baby frogs are numerous upon emerging from the ponds, but will soon dwindle in numbers from dispersal & predation. It's almost always temporary that they are numerous. The worst I've seen it was when Western toads emerged from ponds & lakes, wee toads about one-inch long migrating en masse on rainy evening, so thick that peoples' lawns were totally covered. But three days later you had to look hard to find even one. -paghat the ratgirl Haha, nice to see you here Paghat the rat girl! I was here to get some tips about my cycads, i never thought I'd see you here! I hope your rats are doing well, mine are doing great! RAT -- Get your Paghat the Ratgirl T-Shirt he http://www.paghat.com/giftshop.html "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot." -Thomas Jefferson |
"Michelle" wrote in message news:rBXEe.5524$dM3.4531@trnddc04... Hello. I am fairly new to the gardening scene and I am really enjoying myself. However, I do not do well with bugs and other creepy crawlers. I am noticing a lot of small frogs. Is there any type of repellent I can use for hopping creatures? -- Thank You. Michelle Frogs are harmless and under threat these days. I know that they are cold and sticky and icky but you don't need to touch them. Leave them alone and they will leave you alone. Also they will assist by eating several sorts of bugs. If you can get past the bad press they have got in folklore frogs can be quite beautiful and interesting. David |
"Michelle" wrote in message
news:rBXEe.5524$dM3.4531@trnddc04... Hello. I am fairly new to the gardening scene and I am really enjoying myself. However, I do not do well with bugs and other creepy crawlers. I am noticing a lot of small frogs. Is there any type of repellent I can use for hopping creatures? Pesticides and herbicides will work nicely. Use as many as possible, preferably on a daily basis, and you'll kill all the bugs in your garden, thereby eliminating the food source for the frogs or toads or whatever you have. Of course, you'll also have no bugs left to pollinate your vegetables, so you might want to eliminate those from the garden plan. And, nobody will be able to eat anything from your garden. But, you'll have no creepy little animals left. They all spread rabies anyway. Once you've established this regimen, be sure to check your health insurance and make sure you've got long term care coverage. |
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message ... "Michelle" wrote in message news:rBXEe.5524$dM3.4531@trnddc04... Hello. I am fairly new to the gardening scene and I am really enjoying myself. However, I do not do well with bugs and other creepy crawlers. I am noticing a lot of small frogs. Is there any type of repellent I can use for hopping creatures? -- Thank You. Michelle Frogs are harmless and under threat these days. I know that they are cold and sticky and icky but you don't need to touch them. Leave them alone and they will leave you alone. Also they will assist by eating several sorts of bugs. If you can get past the bad press they have got in folklore frogs can be quite beautiful and interesting. David Some of them have beautiful eyes. And the best part is that they don't bark all night like my neighbor's fuquing dog. |
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"Lar" wrote in message t... In article , says... :) Some of them have beautiful eyes. And the best part is that they don't bark :) all night like my neighbor's fuquing dog. :) :) Try the Fire Bellied Toad...these cool little guys definitly "bark" and of course it is pretty much all night long. -- Lar What street do they live on? I haven't seen them around here (Rochester NY). |
Move to an apartment in the city. Geesh.
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 01:52:23 GMT, "Michelle" wrote: Hello. I am fairly new to the gardening scene and I am really enjoying myself. However, I do not do well with bugs and other creepy crawlers. I am noticing a lot of small frogs. Is there any type of repellent I can use for hopping creatures? |
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"Doug Kanter" wrote: "Michelle" wrote in message news:rBXEe.5524$dM3.4531@trnddc04... Hello. I am fairly new to the gardening scene and I am really enjoying myself. However, I do not do well with bugs and other creepy crawlers. I am noticing a lot of small frogs. Is there any type of repellent I can use for hopping creatures? Pesticides and herbicides will work nicely. Use as many as possible, preferably on a daily basis, and you'll kill all the bugs in your garden, thereby eliminating the food source for the frogs or toads or whatever you have. Of course, you'll also have no bugs left to pollinate your vegetables, so you might want to eliminate those from the garden plan. And, nobody will be able to eat anything from your garden. But, you'll have no creepy little animals left. They all spread rabies anyway. Once you've established this regimen, be sure to check your health insurance and make sure you've got long term care coverage. Please make sure that your children and grand children are covered too. Gardening is about death and destruction and rebirth . Sterile equates to death. Some studies suggest sterile can equal asthma as the dirty old sandbox became a germ free plastic environment. Immune system can't handle the real world. Sting rot before a seed burst seems to be the rigor. Forgot sex! Bill who offers a bounty for toads alive. Precious beings! -- Garden Shade Zone 5 in a Japanese Jungle manner. FAIR USE NOTICE: This may contain copyrighted (© ) material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Such material is made available for educational purposes, to advance understanding of human rights, democracy, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice issues, etc. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 U.S.C. section 107 of the US Copyright Law. This material is distributed without profit. |
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from Darren Garrison contains these words: On 24 Jul 2005 20:16:31 -0700, "Alan Sung" wrote: You actually want to keep frogs. They eat alot of bugs and are totally harmless to vegetation. I don't know of any repellents, only natural ones. Remove ponds and wet areas and they'll move on. Snakes eat frogs but then you're adding another creepy crawler. No, the snakes aren't the first step. First, she'll need special lizards. THEN, to wipe out the lizards, she'll need to unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. Then she'll need a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat. The beautiful part is that when wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death. The bad news is, when they defrost in spring they smell terrible. You can hardly sit out on the terrace drinking tea for the stink of rotting gorilla-flesh and the horrible buzz of the flies feeding on it. That's whan you remember that frogs eat flies, and wish you had some. Janet Janet |
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