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Post by Flytrap on Aug 2, 2006 16:53:18 GMT -5
Oh big crap! There are mice in my greenhouse I saw him scurrying about, and thought nothing of it until I saw one of my albo marginata plants chewed to shreds... I'm going to get a mouse trap and catch it. Maybe I'l do what the other guy on the CPUK forum did ...and feed him to my larger neps afterwards. Eeeyuck!
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Post by tom on Aug 2, 2006 17:36:46 GMT -5
A cat might do the trick... but peanut butter on a mouse trap too, if you dont like the furry carnivores
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Post by Flytrap on Sept 1, 2006 17:56:10 GMT -5
It's been waiting for the critters ...but no bites yet.
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Post by lloyd on Sept 1, 2006 21:06:35 GMT -5
I once stank up my nepenthes terrarium with pill bugs, I can't imagine how bad a rotting mouse would smell.
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Post by pem on Sept 1, 2006 21:19:24 GMT -5
Well I got an interesting trap for you that has never failed me or my parents. We had to come up with something because my picky cat refuse to chase birds. The set up is simple all you need is a deep container (We use 5 gallon oil pails), some sort of stick for the mouse to climb up (1x4), a strip of paper, some sprt of clamp or clip, peanut butter. All you need to do is smear the peanut butter on one end of the paper and clamp the other end to the stick. Then put the stick paper side up so that the peanut butter end is hanging over the container. The trap works simply enough, the mouse is attracted by the PB and climbs the stick goes to grab the PB. The weight of the mouse causes the paper to bend and the mouse falls into the bucket. Now what you do with the mouse is up to you. We just usually kill it but that just us. If you use this technique tell me how it works.
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Post by Flytrap on Sept 1, 2006 23:02:25 GMT -5
Pem... what a novel idea! I'm going to try it! thanks for the "better mouse trap"
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Post by z on Sept 2, 2006 11:49:19 GMT -5
Hehe, see the relation between the "better mouse trap" and a Nepenthes? Perhaps it'll be benificial to add some wings on to the buckets so that the mouse could climb in, and add in a peristome so that it can't fly back out. ;D
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Post by Flytrap on Sept 21, 2006 9:49:45 GMT -5
Mice are still running about in my greenhouse. I guess they're too smart for the traps I've set.
It is interesting to observe them feeding off the nep pitcher lips, watching them lick and nibble off the nectar is kind of neat. In fact, I figure my plants have been supporting a family of them. I've noticed a few baby mice running around.
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Post by Rick Hillier on Sept 21, 2006 11:33:22 GMT -5
Try using chocolate in the trap... I've had good luck in the past with it... seems the rhodents can't resist it.
>>> RIck <<<
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Post by lloyd on Sept 21, 2006 12:31:06 GMT -5
Have you tried the sticky traps? I had good luck with them when mice invaded our kitchen.
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Post by jay on Sept 21, 2006 14:18:58 GMT -5
why don't you just get some packets of rattack ... poison, or do you have animals , one year in the winter wood rats were silently munching away my cp under a covering of snow , now i don't fool around with traps .. never again will i be so blind to the midwinter cravings of mice and thier kind ...
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