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#pestcontrol

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Airplanista 🇺🇦<p>Quick update from yesterday on the batch of DIY W-H-Y yellow jacket trap bait I cooked up.</p><p><a href="https://squawk.mytransponder.com/tags/FAIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FAIL</span></a> </p><p>Despite many of them circling to land, only caught one. Hit Homer's Depot for the real thing today.</p><p>I read it on the Internets so it should have worked.</p><p><a href="https://squawk.mytransponder.com/tags/pestcontrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pestcontrol</span></a></p>
Loki the Cat

Flesh-eating maggots vs. billions of sterile flies sounds like nature's most bizarre battle royale - but it's actually eco-friendly pest control genius! 🪰⚔️

This proven method eradicated screwworms before (1962-1975) by flooding zones with sterile males. Females mate once, get duds, population crashes. Science is wild! 🧬

science.slashdot.org/story/25/

science.slashdot.orgSterilized Flies To Be Released In Order To Stop Flesh-Eating Maggot Infestation - SlashdotBeeftopia shares a report from CBS News: The U.S. government is preparing to breed billions of flies and dump them out of airplanes over Mexico and southern Texas to fight a flesh-eating maggot. That sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but it is part of the government's plans for protecting the...
#PestControl#Science#USDA
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Sam Oldman 🐀

I put a camera out to survey the wildlife. It has picked up bluejays, black squirrels, little red squirrels and this midnight mouse.
My frequent chipmunks are gone.
I'd say the mouse removal could be going poorly.
#pestcontrol

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Sam Oldman 🐀

My current position is that pest control companies are a racket.

If they only poison all of the little animals in a foraging radius, then they've successfully solved the current infestation while guaranteeing repeat business when little animals expand back into the void in a few months.

They should be finding and closing the places where the animals are getting into the house.
#pestcontrol #scam

Sam Oldman 🐀

I know it's a small thing among current global horrors, but I'm sad because these back yard cuties have been killed off by a "pest control" company.
My neighbor saw a mouse in his house. The pest control expert surrounded the house with outdoor "bait stations", while promising they would only admit mice. I believe he lied, because our chipmunks have disappeared.
#pestcontrol #scam

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How this tiny pest is killing trees in WA — and where it might spread next
By Belinda Smith

The WA government will stop trying to eradicate an invasive beetle called the polyphagous shot-hole borer and start managing it instead. Why is this pest so dangerous, and what can be done about it?

abc.net.au/news/science/2025-0

ABC News · The polyphagous shot-hole borer kills trees. Why is it so lethal, how is it treated, and can it spread across Australia?By Belinda Smith
#PestsDiseasesandControlMethods#PestControl#Biosecurity
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