and we had the worst bee problems this year that I've ever seen. I found a huge nest at the corner of my driveway and they were slick with how they hid their nest behind my bush but now that its leaves are dropping I found the nest. Its quite big. I was out in my driveway a couple months ago and kept hearing loud buzzing that sounded like a huge nest but could not find it. I know that sounds stupid but its true. I got stung more this year that I have for the last ten years. I got one sting that was the most painful shit I've ever felt and I've been stung a lot. I think i made an upload about it here and some said "oy vey you turned muh allergic". No, I'm not. Yellow and black jacket venom this year is fucking brutal. I know a few other people who got stung this year and they said the same thing. Most painful stings they ever felt.
Anyhoo, these deer are about to go into my freezer and I'm not even looking to do that shit right now mane. Also, for the past ten years I've had a lot of white deer roaming around. Its very weird. I also had a big ass almost solid white skunk back about 8 years ago. The deer this year just seem very brave. Before, if they were in my yard and I walked outside they would run off quickly. This year they just stand there. They walk all around us if we're sitting outside. No way they are all someones "pets".
I also have some awesome owls coming in every evening, which is normal for here. One is huge! A;; the ravens I have coming in still remember to not fuck with my garbage bins. We have an agreement after I killed one and sat him on the top of one of my bins. About 40+ gathered in the trees right after and had a funeral. Very eerie thing to see. I have Turkeys coming in and they seem retarded.
Yeah its gotten pretty bad. Fucking mansions being built in the backwoods and Porsche and other high end vehicles flying on our backroads. They aren't friendly people, either.
I trap them in their holes with the appropriate-sized sticks. I hear them boring, find a good stick, jam it in the hole and then snap it off. It's a fairly effective non-chemical deterrent. For a while. Then I, too, finally gave them the lesson of chemical warfare.
I used to have problems with deer breaking into my garden. A few weeks of me chasing after them with a chopping maul anytime they got close to my garden caused them to stop. The only issue now is a faun keeps getting stuck in with the goats and nearly breaking its neck anytime I try to let it out.
Since you seem to live somewhere like me, keep an eye on the rat population. They've gone berserk this year, and won't leave my house or garden alone. They ate an entire pumpkin in the span of one night. Full sized pumpkin as well, not a miniature. I've already killed over 60 of them recently, but the traps are losing effectiveness as they are learning not to mess with them. At this rate I'll probably have to get cats, as me, the wild owls, foxes, snakes, and bobcats are no longer able to keep their population down. It seems their population explosion is due to us having a warmer winter last year.
They cannot get into my garden. I cracked that code decades ago with kite string added to my fence. Run a line of it post to post then run a zig-zag pattern all the way across. It fucks with deers eyes and they will not cross it. Its an old farmer trick that works. I've seen a dozen deer walk around my garden and they wont even attempt it. It freaks them out/entanglement issues. I don't have any rats to speak of. I get field mice once in a while, though. You need a good outside cat if you're having those probs. Get one of the bigger breeds. I have one at my upper barn and I rarely see it. He's a big MF. We don't have a relationship. If we do pass each other we eyeball each other and go on. He does not come down to the house.
I'm glad that works for you, but it doesn't work for my deer. Not only were they not scared of getting entangled or trapped, but they would find small weak points in the bottom of my fence, and shove up underneath of it. People are too friendly with them out where I live, so they aren't concerned that someone would kill them if they get tangled, at least until I started chasing them off of my property.
I'll probably see about getting a couple larger cats given I have a couple either neighbor cats or stray cats hunting on my property and they aren't even getting the job done.
I told a buddy of mine who is having deer problems to get one of those 12ft tall scarecrow monsters from Lowes and put it in the middle of his garden. When they get near it says loudly: "welcome to your dooooom". lmao Then after the last harvest move it out to the front yard for Halloween.
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Grateful my snapdragons seem to attract every carpenter bee around...so that's nice. Carpenter bees are good dudes.
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The only issue now is a faun keeps getting stuck in with the goats and nearly breaking its neck anytime I try to let it out.
Since you seem to live somewhere like me, keep an eye on the rat population.
They've gone berserk this year, and won't leave my house or garden alone. They ate an entire pumpkin in the span of one night. Full sized pumpkin as well, not a miniature.
I've already killed over 60 of them recently, but the traps are losing effectiveness as they are learning not to mess with them.
At this rate I'll probably have to get cats, as me, the wild owls, foxes, snakes, and bobcats are no longer able to keep their population down.
It seems their population explosion is due to us having a warmer winter last year.
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People are too friendly with them out where I live, so they aren't concerned that someone would kill them if they get tangled, at least until I started chasing them off of my property.
I'll probably see about getting a couple larger cats given I have a couple either neighbor cats or stray cats hunting on my property and they aren't even getting the job done.
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Most likely from being pumpkinful to pumpkinless.