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*Farmgirl Barter™:  what is your LEAST favorite critter?  |
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Sheep Mom 2
True Blue Farmgirl
1534 Posts
Sheri
Elk
WA
USA
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 Posted - Aug 18 2011 : 09:56:41 AM
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Mice, ground hogs and most of all....SKUNKS. Those buggers will steal my eggs, kill chickens and spray my dogs. Followed by porcupines.
Blessings, Sheri
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longbeachfox
True Blue Farmgirl
322 Posts
Mary
Long Beach
WA
USA
322 Posts |
Posted - Aug 19 2011 : 9:37:36 PM
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Here on the WA coast, it is definitely SLUGS!!!! I'm not kidding when I say they can munch down in one night the beautiful hydrangea that your daughter bought you for Mother's Day. We go on "slug patrol" every night just to keep them at bay, especially in the vegie garden. I planted lettuce...the nice mixture kind and was so proud to see them all coming up in different colors and thought how nice that will be in a salad and...no kidding...the next morning all were GONE! Yes, that is my worst critter for sure. :>)) FG Hugs to you all. Mary
Farmgirl # 2532
With God...Nothing Is Impossible!
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Just LaLa
Farmgirl at Heart
3 Posts
Linda
Robertsville
Missouri
USA
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Posted - Aug 22 2011 : 7:25:30 PM
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| snakes and japanees beetles ! |
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texdane
Farmgirl Legend Chapter Leader Chapter Guru
4658 Posts
Nicole
Sandy Hook
CT
USA
4658 Posts |
Posted - Aug 23 2011 : 1:54:36 PM
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Love the Costa Rican possum story! Too funny. For me, it's bats. Actually, I tend to freak if anything flying comes to close to my head or face. Otherwise, I'm only scared of the snakes and critters I don't see...
Nicole
Farmgirl Sister #1155
KNITTER, JAM-MAKER AND MOM EXTRAORDINAIRE
Chapter Leader, Connecticut Simpler Life Sisters
Suburban Farmgirl Blogger
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cranberryrose55
True Blue Farmgirl
62 Posts
Jan
San Jose
California
USA
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Posted - Aug 26 2011 : 11:02:54 PM
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Because I get to volunteer as a Master Gardener, I was listening to the missed messages, a voice slightly hysterical, frantically called out, "Help, help, there are iridescent green beetles, and they're attacking me! When I come out the door!".. .
(They filled in their inground swimming pool with compost, put in a garden and the Green Fig Beetles laid eggs in the compost which they need and all hatched out) They are not small, about 1 1/2" long and when they hit you, they hurt.)
Green Fig Beetles eat peaches-hate 'em.
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Oggie
True Blue Farmgirl
526 Posts
Ginny
Machias
Maine
USA
526 Posts |
Posted - Aug 27 2011 : 10:48:25 PM
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LMAO Ladies!! For me it seems to be a different one each month. May is Blackflies; June is ants, July is Cabbage worms, August is slugs (and bats), September is mice, October is those ladybugs that stink, and then in November, December, January, February, & March it's snow, and April it's mud. Did I cover them all?
I just had two bats in my house last week and today preparing for Irene I took down a window box and found one sleeping behind it! UCK UCK UCK! You probably don't know anyone who will get as frantic when she sees a bat as me! Here's my bat story from last week!
Imagine my DH who is recuperating from foot surgery and can only be in bed or in the bathroom for 3 - 5 months. He cannot put any weight on his foot at all. To get from the hospital bed to the bathroom he uses a "knee walker" (like a scooter for your leg). Just him riding on the walker is funny! Anyway, he yells for me one night and I come to his hospital bed in the sunroom. He asks me, very calm, to sit down on the bed which I do. He then says look into the kitchen, which I do but I don't see anything. He keeps proding me, "don't you see it, can't you see it, just look closer". I see nothing. He FINALLY says "there's a bat flying around and you have to get it". WHAT!!! I panic, I almost (or maybe did) pee my pants, tell him hystically I can't do it. He must get up right then and there and get that bat!! Even if it means foot surgery again!! I just can't do it! He looks at me and says "So are you telling me we are going to wait until I get out of a cast, say October, November to catch this bat?". I quickly contemplate boarding up my kitchen until then. Really, we can eat take out for the next couple of months, 3 times a day can't we? It can't be that expensive I"m thinking and the benefit would be I don't have to cook. Realizing we couldn't do that, the rest of the night is like a blur until I hear him say "Look honey, you did it".
Well, let's make the story short, my livingroom curtains, rod and all, went out the door with the bat! My husband did get up, and "scooted" around the house trying to get the bat. It was actually hilarious except for the bat part. He doesn't believe in killing anything so he always chases a bat with a tupperware container and heavy cardstock paper. Once he catches them, he releases them back outside. Me, I don't care, at least where bats are concerned. It must have been God who stepped in because I don't think it was me. I was to busy moving furniture out of DH way, putting up blankets over doors to contain it, getting the curtain rod off the wall, etc... I can't imagine I did anything to help get this bat out of my house!
Ginny
Farmgirl #2343
www.thedewhopinn.com
"I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whomever I'm with."
"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." Both by Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in the Movie Harvey
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Kampercatt
Farmgirl in Training
21 Posts
Zoe
Elkhorn
WI
USA
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Posted - Aug 30 2011 : 5:50:23 PM
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| I hate the cow-birds coming thru right now and trashing my bird feeders and taking all the food for my song birds. Add a pesky squirrel into the mix, as well!! Augh!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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walkinwalkoutcattle
True Blue Farmgirl
1675 Posts
Megan
Paint Lick
KY
USA
1675 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2011 : 5:32:42 PM
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millipedes, centipedes, and HOBO SPIDERS! EEEEEEEK!
Farmgirl #2879 :)
Starbucks and sushi to green fried tomatoes and corn pudding-I wouldn't change it for the world.
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Bensgrandma
True Blue Farmgirl
228 Posts
Alexis
White Oak
PA
USA
228 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2011 : 7:37:37 PM
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I am still laughing at the bat story but in sympathy not in making fun because we have (had) bats too. We have fought them for years in our attic. No matter what we did they came back year after year. Last year we got a new roof and the roofer closed off the end they got in - no more bats.
We even hung screening down from the roof over the vents so they would fly out but couldnot get back in. That was fun to watch. Then they figured out they could use the other vent at the other end of the house.
My list
Bats
Snakes
Stink Bugs - they may be number one and let me tell you do not make the mistake of using raid on them. That really makes them mad.
groundhogs
but mostly snakes and stink bugs this year.
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Calicogirl
True Blue Farmgirl
5216 Posts
Sharon
Bruce Crossing
Michigan
USA
5216 Posts |
Posted - Sep 09 2011 : 7:47:05 PM
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Oh Megan I am with you!
Centipedes, millipedes and I CANNOT stand earwigs. Eeew! I can tolerate spiders (with the exception of Black Widows) and snakes but I jump when I come across an earwig.
~Sharon
By His Grace, For His Glory
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