Do you stock enough death?

[Inor]

The recent posts by Chiefster on Lists and Laundry got me thinking...

This time of year, M.T. Acres gets absolutely overrun with bugs and rodents trying to get inside to stay warm at night. I've taken care of most of our rodent problems that we had last year, but my shop was still inundated with flies and spiders. Sprays and poisons do work pretty well but for some reason I never thought to lay in a good supply of them.

So this afternoon, I ordered a case each of Spider spray, Bug spray, Wasp spray and rodent poison. It was kind of spendy but I HATE bugs and rodents and this is, by far, the easiest way to keep them under control.

[MoreAmmoOK]

https://diypestcontrol.com/ is my go-to place for such things.

[Mad Trapper]

For insects my go to is permethrin concentrate. Pretty much kills all insects, has a decent residual, but no knock down power. Not terribly toxic to humans but bad for cats if still moist. Can mix up a little or a lot. Each spring damm carpenter and tiny ants try to move into the house, I spray the foundation perimeter for those. You can treat clothes with permethrin for ticks, chiggers, biting bugs.

Good to have a couple cans of wasp spray that reaches out and has quick knock down power.

Another good insect prep is borax/borate/boric acid. You can make ant/insect bait stations mixing it with sugar or honey in a water solution. I put that in empty tuna fish cans where ants travel in and out. They take the mixture home to the nest and it kills the colony. Works on cockroaches too. Borax you can use for laundry, pharmacy grade boric acid as dilute solution for eye wash in sterile water. The eye wash is a good treatment for styes in the eyes.

I'm late getting some of my mouse bucket traps out cleaned/refreshed this fall. They keep on working but stank if you catch vermin and don't keep up on dumping them. Did buy a stash of rodentcide last fall to deal with voles, and keep a supply of mouse/rat traps.

I keep a few air rifles handy in the house and outbuildings for chipmunks/tree rats/rabbits/chucks/some pillaging birds.

[MountainGirl]

Oh...... PO is gonna love this thread. :thumb:

[BucketBack]

For insects my go to is permethrin concentrate. Pretty much kills all insects, has a decent residual, but no knock down power. Not terribly toxic to humans but bad for cats if still moist. Can mix up a little or a lot. Each spring damm carpenter and tiny ants try to move into the house, I spray the foundation perimeter for those. You can treat clothes with permethrin for ticks, chiggers, biting bugs.

Good to have a couple cans of wasp spray that reaches out and has quick knock down power.

Another good insect prep is borax/borate/boric acid. You can make ant/insect bait stations mixing it with sugar or honey in a water solution. I put that in empty tuna fish cans where ants travel in and out. They take the mixture home to the nest and it kills the colony. Works on cockroaches too. Borax you can use for laundry, pharmacy grade boric acid as dilute solution for eye wash in sterile water. The eye wash is a good treatment for styes in the eyes.

I'm late getting some of my mouse bucket traps out cleaned/refreshed this fall. They keep on working but stank if you catch vermin and don't keep up on dumping them. Did buy a stash of rodentcide last fall to deal with voles, and keep a supply of mouse/rat traps.

I keep a few air rifles handy in the house and outbuildings for chipmunks/tree rats/rabbits/chucks/some pillaging birds.

Got sum perm stuff and more than a few cans of bug stuff. And a shrink wrap torch I refound

[Slippy]

Our barn cats are efficient killers;

Mice and rats fear these 2 little black angels of death...

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[Mad Trapper]

Got sum perm stuff and more than a few cans of bug stuff. And a shrink wrap torch I refound

Spray up a set of hunting clothes Bucket. I've not been hunting this fall yet, just getting in cordwood now. Have not picked any ticks recent. Last few years I've found ticks on deer skinning them.

I hate fucking ticks...

[Prepared One]

Oh...... PO is gonna love this thread. :thumb:

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[Prepared One]

I keep plenty of insect killer on hand. You name it I think I have it. Hornet spray, bug spray, permethrin concentrate, Boric acid, Spectracide Triazicide both granules and liquid concentrate and Fire Ant control. I was having coffee on the deck with MG and we were talking bugs and I mentioned that Texas probably has every bug known to man and some of them are as big as Texas itself. I try to kill them all without mercy, especially hornets and wasps. I went out and bought a sprayer tank rig with a pump so I can load it in the bed of the general. That way I can spray the entire cleared acreage this spring from the General. Hand pumps will take care of the house.

Spring is especially bad here, that's when the hornets and wasps come looking for a home, and that's when I go into search and destroy mode. I have plenty of hornet spray and permethrin concentrate on hand for those things.

We don't seem to have a mouse problem or rats, haven't seen any signs of them anyway, but I need to pick up some traps and put them in storage. Had coons and possums that I trapped and killed but haven't seen any since we got the dog. Still have the tree rats that get at my bird feeders and I kill them when I can.

[Inor]

Last fall/winter I was just slammed with mice in my shop. I put out traps and was getting 3-4 every day at the worst of it, but they were just replaced by 5-6 the next day! Over the spring and summer, I bought a bunch of these and made some bait stations from 2" PVC pipe. I put 1 in the gardens, 2 in the chicken area and 2 in the feed shack.

https://www.amazon.com/Ramik-Neogen-116331-Mini-Bait/dp/B00GYASHRS/ref=sr_1_32?crid=2IFBS4U6LUGKT&keywords=ramik+rat+poisoning&qid=1699115736&sprefix=ramik%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-32

Those worked absolutely awesome! I have not had a single mouse/rat in the shop yet this year and they are even staying out of the feed shack. (So I bought a case of them yesterday.)

I have to get some more PVC and make a couple more stations for inside the shop because I am sure the little bastards are just waiting for me to let down my guard. But I am a "true believer" in that stuff!

[Slippy]

Excellent idea!


Last fall/winter I was just slammed with mice in my shop. I put out traps and was getting 3-4 every day at the worst of it, but they were just replaced by 5-6 the next day! Over the spring and summer, I bought a bunch of these and made some bait stations from 2" PVC pipe. I put 1 in the gardens, 2 in the chicken area and 2 in the feed shack.

https://www.amazon.com/Ramik-Neogen-116331-Mini-Bait/dp/B00GYASHRS/ref=sr_1_32?crid=2IFBS4U6LUGKT&keywords=ramik+rat+poisoning&qid=1699115736&sprefix=ramik%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-32

Those worked absolutely awesome! I have not had a single mouse/rat in the shop yet this year and they are even staying out of the feed shack. (So I bought a case of them yesterday.)

I have to get some more PVC and make a couple more stations for inside the shop because I am sure the little bastards are just waiting for me to let down my guard. But I am a "true believer" in that stuff!

[bigwheel]

The rodents dont come near my humble crib cause of my grand prize winning cat and my trusty adult pellet expeller. The flys are scared of me with my salt shooter. Ants get the poison.

[Mad Trapper]

Last fall/winter I was just slammed with mice in my shop. I put out traps and was getting 3-4 every day at the worst of it, but they were just replaced by 5-6 the next day! Over the spring and summer, I bought a bunch of these and made some bait stations from 2" PVC pipe. I put 1 in the gardens, 2 in the chicken area and 2 in the feed shack.

https://www.amazon.com/Ramik-Neogen-116331-Mini-Bait/dp/B00GYASHRS/ref=sr_1_32?crid=2IFBS4U6LUGKT&keywords=ramik+rat+poisoning&qid=1699115736&sprefix=ramik%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-32

Those worked absolutely awesome! I have not had a single mouse/rat in the shop yet this year and they are even staying out of the feed shack. (So I bought a case of them yesterday.)

I have to get some more PVC and make a couple more stations for inside the shop because I am sure the little bastards are just waiting for me to let down my guard. But I am a "true believer" in that stuff!

I got a big jug of the pellets for voles. Then I took ~3/4" sticks and coated the end with cheap peanut butter, then dipped the end in the pellets. The coated stick gets jammed into the vole hole. Another way to keep non-target animals from the poison and sticks are free..

I resort to poisons as last stand resort for infestations. Lots of good non-target animals or pets, can eat a poison drunk rodent (hawks, owls, fox, fishers, weasel,....) . I don't have chickens so those animals are not a problem here. Even the yotes eat a lot of vermin/rabbits, but they get theirs if I see them fall/winter hunting seasons.