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Cutter ants!! Help!!!!!
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Rusty Mase wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:30:30 -0600, Katra wrote: So now what are you using for insect control? I don't and I have never found it to be a problem. I have lots of spiders - especially jumping spiders - and they may be helping. I do use Amdro on fire ants on occassion. Also, I use an aerosol can of garden spray to control capenter ants where I do not want them. Ok, so you are a spider lover... ;-) Then I forgive you for killing innocent geckos. G I happen to be a spider fan too, and most of my jumping spiders have dissapeared. But, I still have a healthy population of weavers, or whatever the are, a largish spiky looking chocolate brown spider that spins a really big, round and symmetrical web every night, then cuts it down in the morning. I have to be careful going out into the yard at night as there are so many of them and they won't hesitate to spin across a pathway. G Beautiful webs! I have a lot of spiders and any yard guests that dare to mess with my spiders gets a chewing out and spider education lecture! And for the record, I think geckos are cute. And for the record, I think they are vermin. To each his own... This being Texas, we had a bad Palmetto bug problem. I still have a few but not _nearly_ so many since the Geckos took over, and I still have praying mantises and assasin bugs, as well as plenty of ladybugs. I don't mind a few egg cases. :-) They mostly breed in the attic which is dead space that I don't use. There were a few in the storage area, but that has not been a major problem. I ignore Palmetto bugs mostly but take a garden hose to them occassionally. Ew!!! I cannot stand those damned things and am glad that my toads have increased enough to eat the bigger ones, and the geckos help to control the newborn population! The chickens eat whatever I may chase out during the day. Too bad the damned things are nocturnal. :-P Fortunately, most of the ones that I find in the house are quite dead as the cats get to them first... Cats adore Palmetto bugs. ;-) crunch crunch The grasshopper population has also been drastically reduced. No, they are around but I ignore them Sorry, they do WAY too much damage to my cannas, and the okra plants in the spring! I have a couple of yard snakes that I know eat them as i've caught the snakes with 'hoppers in their mouths which is why they still get to live here. I have no fear of snakes, but some insect eating species also eat lizards and toads which is why you may be having a problem building up your toad population if you have a lot of snakes. I've had to trap all my ratsnakes and relocate them as they were getting into the pigeon coop and killing and eating baby pigeons and eggs! Unfortunately, that has contributed to the current rat problem. I need to go and buy a bunch of one bite bars. I hate poison, but there is a time and place for it. So, do you have any bug problems now that you killed them all? No and I get lots of bugs outside that I ignore. I do not get many in the house except for spiders, which I like, and only a few of them. You have cats. ;-) Right? I've been happy too to see the fence lizard and anole populations increase, as well as toads. :-) Yes, but I have trouble with keeping up my toads as I am pretty high and dry. I sometimes have a few that I love to feed Junebugs to on the porch. They become pets. So water more, and put out some toad houses. Upside down, low clay pots with a small entrance in one side in a shaded spot. Stacks of limestone rock work too. I have toads living in the holes of the cinder block raised garden beds. Predator insects are great, but reptile and amphibians eat a lot more! I have snakes. Ground snakes mostly and one snake I have an abundance of is Texas Blind Snakes. I let them live in my flower beds around the house. Garter snakes, yellow bellied racers and Texas rat snakes are infrequent visitors to my yard. Ground snakes are good, but they usually only eat subterranian insects and earthworms??? AFAIK? They are death on cutworms. Rusty Mase K. -- Sprout the Mung Bean to reply... ,,Cat's Haven Hobby Farm,,Katra at centurytel dot net,, http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...user id=katra |
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