Posted on 06/18/2020 3:47:56 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
They aren’t jumpers. Really clingy.
“Say hi to your friendly neighborhood opossum.”
I say hello ever time I see one with #6 shot. Got one last night.
Had a few mole runs in the yard earlier this year. Bought some poisoned worms ... put them in the runs. That works. The mole will die somewhere in the run and the possums will dig your yard up trying to fine the dead mole.
Guineas will eat ticks, fleas and any other insect they can find, and they WON’T pick at your plants like chickens do. They’ll go after snakes, too.
I had some free-range chickens. A ‘possum would occassoonally bust a hen off a nest. I think it scared the ‘possum more than the hen. They’d come back for the eggs, though.
There’s a possum who strolls thru our carport every night at 9 pm, wanders down the driveway & disappears across the street.
At 10:15 he strolls back thru the carport into the back yard.
You could set a clock by him.
One rainy night, a 6 foot long black snake followed him thru the carport at 9 pm. The possum was nonchalant.
The snake did not follow on the return trek & I never saw it again. But the possum has made his nightly round trip for over 3 years now.
Our cat likes to sit inside the screen door & watch.
I want something to eat live Japanese beetles. I fed one to a Japanese praying mantis, it speared the beetle, took one taste, and violently threw it away. Birds don’t eat them here, the ants would eat the dead ones but then they said, nope, no more for us.
Possums could do a better job on the ticks, if you ask me. Do they really search out tiny little deer ticks on tall grass or just bite the engorged ones off their skin? I mean, I can do that.
So are turkeys. Wild turkeys would descend on our garden at dusk and early mornings and leave behind their poop, much of it composed of earwig parts.
Yep, I found a very long stick to release the flap, and it came out ready to throw down. After a brief stand-off, we agreed to go our separate ways.
I have had some good luck with that expensive stuff in a blue bottle that you put around your trees to keep then off of it
Last year, I didnt put it down in time and got swarmed. This year, I made sure to do it.
There is an old folklore about a certain plant that kills them if they eat it
Some people swear by it but it seems like it may not be true.
that is such a weird story.
have you ever figured out what it does after it crosses the street
I had Japanese beetles for two years that tore up all the trees and shrubs in my front yard. I sprayed them multiple times with bug killer, but it didn’t do much. The next spring I noticed little wasps on the beetles in my plants, and in a couple weeks, no more beetles. It’s been at least 10 years, and I haven’t seen a Japanese beetle since.
Skunks will eat and destroy yellow jackets and their nests.
May be, but they dig up chunks of lawn to look for worms.
More likely they—or skunks—are looking for grubs
“ cooperative opossums.”
Can’t say I’ve met many uncooperative opossums .
Woops, wrong thread!
Guinea fowl do an even better job, give eggs and taste good.
My wife got a tick just walking around the back yard.
I’ve used Sawyers (Permethrin) on my woods clothes for years. The safest and most effective way to keep them off of you.
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