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Jun 1, 2004 11:34 am
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My Pa has a problem with slaters in his veggie patch. Salad vegies or succulents get eaten overnight. He doesn't want to use chemicals (we're an eco friendly...
Heil All Just joined the list and look forward to meeting everyone, we live in Western Australia. We're city dwellers so we can't keep livestock, I grow...
http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/isopoda.html Those are slaters. Although, it looks like they might be just here in Australia. I have the things in my...
Nope, not a slug (although I secretly suspect slugs and snails are the real culprits) http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/isopoda.html Those are slaters....
Hi and welcome to the group! We have a lot of those here in New England... known over here as the woodlouse or "pill bug". I've read too that they only eat...
Good afternoon! ... I had always read that these critters wouldn't bother your plants, but two years running the little monsters ate my garden to the GROUND...
LOL, never heard of either woodlouse or "rolly-polly". I've heard of pill bug and sow bug though. I hate those things! :-P Frižuz, Jess Crabb Jensen...
Hello =) Someday we will have a homestead (just looking for the land!). We believe in natural living, natural building, etc. We're environmentalists, and...
we used to call them "tanks", "armadillo bugs", those medicine ball looking things" But "roley-poley and "pill" sound familiar. I would probably know what...
Heil Do you think anything other than beer would work? I use beer myself, but Pa is a recovering alcoholic so probably not a good option for him. I hate the...
Heil Rochndil Thank you!!! Do you mind if I print that and send it to him? In Frith Tanya ... vegies or ... to ... him. ... but ... here ... problem. ... one ...
Your garden sounds wonderful. I'm wondering if you have any concern that the chemicals from the tires will leach into the soil, especially after being heated...
There seems to be quite a bit of interest out there (woohoo), only 2 more months to go, so mark your calendars. West Coast Gathering The 2nd West Coast...
Waidmansheil Gillian, Provided that the tyres have not had a sealent used inside them prior to them being discared, the rubber itself is extremely stable and...
Heilsa, I dont believe thats a huge issue here. I even raised a baby squirrel last year when it fell from its nest. He was a great companion til he went ...
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Jun 8, 2004 8:42 pm
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Wassail! ... squirrel last ... went ... fleas when i brought ... LOL. I like that, Carla, a squirrel going "squirrelly." I had a friend in school who had a pet...
... **Black Plague? Squirrels? I suppose, but I never heard of squirrels carrying it. Rats are the main carry of that and I know we don;t have a problem of ...
... carrying it. Rats are the main carry of that and I know we don;t have a problem of black plague inn America.< A problem, no, but a possibility, yes. When...
... I have- at this point, as I understand it, squirrels are the main carriers. ... Rats and their lice were the carriers in the Middle Ages. I read some years...
One website mentioned that there had been over 300 cases of bubonic plague in the West since 1947. Not a huge amount, but an average of about six cases a...
It's hot and dry here so the plague - and hanta virus - will probably be a problem again. We've fortunately not had much problems with people getting the...
The plague is always around, it just doesn't erupt ... Thanks all Being from New England, I had never heard the plague was stillaround in pockets in the...
... and tell you not to take your animals hiking if there's a threat. < Have they really? I didn't know that! I loved hiking there when we lived up there....
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