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Post by kdawg on Aug 27, 2016 19:04:18 GMT -5
An Eastern Grey Squirrel uprooted a few hundred Darlingtonia seedlings in the nursery bog yesterday. If I am an animal, and its an animal (introduced to the island like myself) and I whack it, is that considered biological pest control?
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Post by lloyd on Aug 27, 2016 19:22:19 GMT -5
It depends if you are Vegan or not. The only way to deal with squirrels and other vertebrates is to cover the bog with a light netting on poles. You don't need anything heavy as they hate to get their feet stuck in the netting. Not too fine either as you want the bugs to get in.
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Post by kdawg on Aug 27, 2016 22:22:36 GMT -5
Thanks for the tip Lloyd. There are always squirrels around here but they have never bothered the bogs until yesterday. The neighbors walnut tree is ripe with fruit and one of the squirrels decided the Cobra bog was a great stash spot. I temporarily covered with a shade cloth I had laying around but I will take your advice and switch to bird mesh so light and insects can get in. I replanted the victimized seedlings and am hoping for the best. A few are toast for sure.
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Post by lloyd on Aug 28, 2016 4:32:44 GMT -5
Squirrels also will go crazy during nesting periods and will rampage about to get nesting material. I lost a lot of plants to this 2-3 years back.
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Post by danyoh on Oct 1, 2016 23:31:46 GMT -5
Just noticed my D. hartmeyerorum died 4 months ago.. Just found out now. Here's an unpleasantly blurry picture of it before I forgot about it
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Post by WillyCKH on Oct 19, 2016 11:19:00 GMT -5
Just noticed my D. hartmeyerorum died 4 months ago.. Any idea why?
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Post by danyoh on Oct 19, 2016 12:32:27 GMT -5
I forgot about it
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Post by amanitovirosa on Nov 1, 2016 20:56:55 GMT -5
...my Dead Pool tray does not have a drain hole in it, so with all the rain we've had here lately it is full of water. All my little dead pots are below the current water table and have been for the past month, at least. I was poking around in there today and found that a lot of the plants (Flytraps) are coming back around. Even the pots that were completely submerged, tipped over by whatever vermin, are alive and doing better than the pots that were not. Submerged Drosera are also alive. Just sayin', this would contradict pretty much all suggested growing methods for these plants.
AV.
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Post by lloyd on Nov 1, 2016 21:16:43 GMT -5
My temperate stuff floods in storms and doesn't mind being submerged for a few days.
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Post by amanitovirosa on Nov 1, 2016 21:22:50 GMT -5
...for a few days yeah, but well over a month, probably closer to two?
AV.
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Post by danyoh on Nov 16, 2016 22:01:12 GMT -5
My wistuba plants all put out new leaves except N. lowii. RIP my favourite lil guy
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Post by Justintime on Feb 11, 2017 23:43:24 GMT -5
Came back from working away for a month and a half sadly three favourite and my crazy hard to find plants died RIP. Rob. Ham, Rajah
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Post by lloyd on Feb 12, 2017 5:57:22 GMT -5
I wonder if remote monitoring by webcam could help.
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Post by Justintime on Feb 12, 2017 16:13:44 GMT -5
Yeah my aunt can only do so much she did a good job watering but she has no idea what she looking at. In about 3 months I'll be moving. I'll be building a more advanced version of my tank. One I can walk away from.
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Post by amanitovirosa on Feb 15, 2017 23:06:07 GMT -5
Came back from working away for a month and a half sadly three favourite and my crazy hard to find plants died RIP. Rob. Ham, Rajah ...Whoa!!!, that's a hard loss!!! My condolences. I hate it when people post in this thread. AV.
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