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That Arbor injector looks fairly promising - how much of a pain is that to use in practice? I've got a bunch of ash trees w/ EAB next to a stream, so I can't use any root drench products. Although it looks like the price of the gun has gone up, and it's $645 now!
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horse_ebookmarklet posted:Checkin in, I'm planning to do the same thing discussed on the first page of this thread. Weekend cabin, must kill wood/deer ticks and put a dent in mosquitos. Tick tubes - they're basically toilet paper tubes with permethrin soaked cotton in them. They're pretty easy to DIY, or you can buy them commercially (for comically high amounts of money for what they are). The theory is you scatter them around where mice are likely to be, the mice grab the cotton to use for their nests, which kills off any ticks attached to them. This disrupts the tick life cycle, as mice are a pretty common host for larva.
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For tiger mosquitos, I've found this trap works pretty well: https://us-shop.biogents.com/products/bg-mosquitaire You will need to buy the odor packs each year too: https://us-shop.biogents.com/collections/mosquito-attractants/products/bg-sweetscent-season-pack Definitely do a thorough examination of your yard to find anywhere even the tiniest bit of standing water can occur. Mosquito dunks can help for larger bodies of water. Your town/county may very well have people that will come do the inspection for you, and offer advice.
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Any tips on house centipedes? I can coexist with a bunch of stuff but they have way too many legs. My best guess is they're living under the slab of the house, and only coming up sometimes. I can't figure out what they could possibly be eating, the only bugs I see around the house apart from them are occasional spiders. We've got no plumbing leaks I can find (unless it's under the slab), but there is a stream about 10ft from the house, so it's likely always damp. We've got a whole-house dehumidifer too, and that keeps things around 55% humidity.
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devicenull posted:Any tips on house centipedes? I can coexist with a bunch of stuff but they have way too many legs. Well gently caress me, I went looking for leaks with the boroscope, and I've got a fairly decent leak under the tub whenever it's running.  So, I guess I'll fix that before I go crazy with other options
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Motronic posted:New to me in today, will have a trip report in a couple of months: I've got two packs of these so far - https://wirelessdeerfence.com/ It "works" in that it scares deer away when they touch them, we'll see how it does long term. The deer here are relentless. We cannot buy anything that isn't highly deer resistant, and even then we often have to cage it. We started moving on to buying poisonous plants!
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I would do an electric fence if I could, they have killed tons of things we've planted. We're by a river though, and apparently are a big pathway for them to go from yard to yard. If I could find someone to legally hunt them, I would. Hell, you could probably hunt them with a knife, they're utterly fearless.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Report back! When our septic problem is sorted, I'm planning to put a deer fence around the (tiny) back yard, because otherwise everything I love will get eaten. Trip report: The deer are too smart of these. Sure, they scare the deer if they touch them, but they pretty quickly learned if they don't touch them they're fine. I did have success putting them immediately next to plants they liked to eat - the plants were untouched. loving deer even managed to open the garden gate somehow and proceeded to eat everything in it. Unless I can fence in the entire yard so it's not a thoroughfare for deer to go from one neighborhood to another, I don't think I'm going to have a ton of luck with anything.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Not electric fence, tall fence. Either 8 feet or 7.5. It takes a determined deer to jump that high (plus either up or down a slope). Highest fence the town will let me put in is 6ft 
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Ytlaya posted:Thanks! I'll definitely do the bird seed thing immediately since it's a simple fix. Currently it easily falls onto the ground. One note in that a 5 gallon plastic bucket + lid is probably not sufficient to keep them out. The loving squirrels managed to chew a bunch of the rim off during the one night I left it outside, I imagine the rats would be worse.
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