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[Jeffrey D Angus]

I thought those little rolls of fly paper strip were cheaper. I once
bought them in a pack of four for $1.

Or is this something different? Sheets of the stuff?

Those cheap fly strips in a cardboard tube package are $0.25 each.
However, Mr. and Mrs. America are deathly afraid of getting stuff
on thier hands, so they come in much easier to "deploy" packaging.
And of course, you pay for that. At the pet store, they have "fly
tubes" 15-24 inches long, all you do is pull them out of the baggie
and hang them up. Of course, they're $15 each.

Jeff

 

[Don Bruder]

Just to throw another variable into the equation, maybe they die from
lack of food. Could be they're like ants or honey bees, they don't
live long without a source of energy, like sugar or nectar, or a piece
of poop to suck on(!)

Students on campus drop a piece of candy on the cement, and the ants
are on it fast, like flies on dog sh!t. Couldn't help using the
analogy.

Don's comment about AR (animal rights?) whiners got me thinking of a
few weeks ago when I mentioned that I had bees in the wall on my
patio, so I called the management co., and they sent an exterminator
to spray them. Someone jumped on me about killing them, and that they
should be moved to a new place. But I didn't have any choice about
how they were mitigated, all I said was that they were starting a hive
in my wall. They still haven't sent someone over to patch the holes,
so who knows - maybe the bees will be back.

If they were bees, they will be...
Not the same colony, of course, but any passing swarm will be able to
smell the old nest-site, and will move right in without hesitation.

IF POSSIBLE (and quite often, it isn't) the "jumper" was right: Move
'em, don't kill 'em. Feral bees represent the only real diversity left
in the beekeeping gene pool. And as such, may be the last best hope of
defeating the nasties that are killing most strains of honeybees -
Varroa mites, tracheal mites, and foulbrood, mainly. A feral colony may
be one of two things: A recently flown swarm (most likely these days) or
a truly "wild" colony. There's no real way to tell, unfortunately. If
it's one of the increasingly rare truly wild colonies, it's a
treasure-trove of fresh genetics that jut might include the resistance
genes that us beekeeper types are trying so desperately to breed into
"our" bugs to fight off the ravages of mites and foulbrood.

 

[Watson A.Name - Watt Sun]

On a marginally related topic. Those gifts from the dog used to turn
white with age. They don't anymore. They've stopped using bone meal
and use ash now for filler.

When I asked my dad (as a kid) why it turned white, he said, "That's
because the flies have sucked all the goodness out of it."

It seemed to me that one reason for this is that the water from the
sprinklers washed the soluble part out and left the rest.

Jeff

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[Watson A.Name - Watt Sun]

I thought those little rolls of fly paper strip were cheaper. I once
bought
them in a pack of four for $1.

Or is this something different? Sheets of the stuff?

It's the kind where you hang a bag of smelly juice up and the flies go
inside the bag. Like these: http://www.victorpest.com/fly_home.htm

Sspeaking of flytraps..
http://www.ridmax.com/
http://insected.arizona.edu/flyrear.htm "Flies are harmless." Uh-huh.



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[jakdedert]

Q: That white stuff on the top of piles of pigeon shit; know what it is?

A: More pigeon shit.... ;-)

jak

 

[Lizard Blizzard]

Q: That white stuff on the top of piles of pigeon shit; know what it is?

A: More pigeon shit.... ;-)

Actually, it's pigeon urine. All birds do not have a bladder, so the
urine gets all the water removed until it's just a white blob in their
poop.

jak

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[Steven Dinius]

Gawd, I love those biology labs