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<blockquote data-quote="dottieruthlove" data-source="post: 1689801" data-attributes="member: 40814"><p>What part of Texas are you in? I would say they're moving around because of all the rain we've had this year--forced relocation. My "wisdom", lol, is based on three experiences. First, when I was a kid visiting cousins who lived in the Eastern Crosstimbers, we were playing in a pickup bed. Started to rain. 10,000 "tranchlers" "attacked" the truck. Terror! Swear to God. Second, (as a grownup), in the Blackland Prairie near a lake, super rainy year, on our tiny blacktop road, a plague of frogs or toads completely covered the road as we drove. Squish squish. Terror #2. Swear to God. Couple years later, my in-laws built a house very close by, like less than 1/8 mile. Lots of dirt work. Nobody ever built anything around here. Scorpions, oh my! I was washing my cement steps at our old house--counted 40!!! Hell yes, I counted 'em! Terror #3, swear to God again. Oops, I forgot the latest Terror. You can choose between having mega wasps or mega spiders. When wasps build their nests, they stuff live spiders under each egg cell, so the younguns will have a nice meal at birth. If you're vigilant about knocking down wasp nests, you'll be inundated with spiders. For me, spiders vs. wasps: eight legs trump one stinger! More "pearls of wisdom": Grasshoppers and horn flies, chickens and dung beetles. Didja know horn flies spend their ENTIRE lives on ONE cow?! They only leave to lay eggs in fresh poop. For the bitey monsters stable flies, only control is to keep fence/corral panels super clean, they breed in wet poop and mud. I only can control them w those clear plastic hanging traps w sticky stuff on them. If you hang those fly killer bags, they only attract houseflies, and they come from distant lands, lol, lured by the attractors in the trap. OH, MY! And one last thing (y'all can see I'm QUITE talky, sorry not sorry): CHICKENS! Grasshoppers and horn flies are their delight. Loose chickens best control possible. Just don't name or count them so you don't notice when the hawks pick 'em off day by day...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dottieruthlove, post: 1689801, member: 40814"] What part of Texas are you in? I would say they're moving around because of all the rain we've had this year--forced relocation. My "wisdom", lol, is based on three experiences. First, when I was a kid visiting cousins who lived in the Eastern Crosstimbers, we were playing in a pickup bed. Started to rain. 10,000 "tranchlers" "attacked" the truck. Terror! Swear to God. Second, (as a grownup), in the Blackland Prairie near a lake, super rainy year, on our tiny blacktop road, a plague of frogs or toads completely covered the road as we drove. Squish squish. Terror #2. Swear to God. Couple years later, my in-laws built a house very close by, like less than 1/8 mile. Lots of dirt work. Nobody ever built anything around here. Scorpions, oh my! I was washing my cement steps at our old house--counted 40!!! Hell yes, I counted 'em! Terror #3, swear to God again. Oops, I forgot the latest Terror. You can choose between having mega wasps or mega spiders. When wasps build their nests, they stuff live spiders under each egg cell, so the younguns will have a nice meal at birth. If you're vigilant about knocking down wasp nests, you'll be inundated with spiders. For me, spiders vs. wasps: eight legs trump one stinger! More "pearls of wisdom": Grasshoppers and horn flies, chickens and dung beetles. Didja know horn flies spend their ENTIRE lives on ONE cow?! They only leave to lay eggs in fresh poop. For the bitey monsters stable flies, only control is to keep fence/corral panels super clean, they breed in wet poop and mud. I only can control them w those clear plastic hanging traps w sticky stuff on them. If you hang those fly killer bags, they only attract houseflies, and they come from distant lands, lol, lured by the attractors in the trap. OH, MY! And one last thing (y'all can see I'm QUITE talky, sorry not sorry): CHICKENS! Grasshoppers and horn flies are their delight. Loose chickens best control possible. Just don't name or count them so you don't notice when the hawks pick 'em off day by day... [/QUOTE]
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