Dh and I eat the same amount of garlic and onions, which is a lot! The bugs eat me alive and never touch him. The only real difference in our diets is he consumes more beer and popsicles than I do.
Bug Babble!
DW and I have the same problem, but I do take 100mg B1 daily.
We both took B1 when we were river-runners and campers - seemed to help. But I really think it has more to do with each person's metabolism, and what chemical odors we each exude. We don't notice them, but the critters do.
I stink pretty good. Guess that's why they don't mess with me.
This topic reminds me of that Tabasco commercial that came out a few years ago where the guy was eating a tortilla with Tabasco and when the mosquito started feasting, he exploded. I wish it really worked.
Me too. We consume large quantities of hot sauce and peppers.
Would be nice... we keep the local pepper market thriving...
Oh, Ya - I'll D-mail you about our river adventures.
Oh no, just start another thread or something. We want to know too.
for mosquitoes we use B12 ..my son used to get silver dollar size if not bigger blisters from them when he was little and still welts up pretty good now so I start him on B12 before the season starts and they don't seem to want to bother him at all then.
Canning is easy but I agree with Betty I am not fond of the color I prefer to freeze if I can.
I used to make pickles, can tomatoes (which come in handy if a skunk comes by the dog), green beans, pickled bets,
freeze corn on the cob, okra, make jelly & jams, apple sauce, dehydrate fruit and veggies (if you do jalepeno peppers put it in the garage not in the house and when you use the blender to grind them up for powder wait till it settles to open it or you get a spicy face lol) make my own fruit roll ups for the kids but then the kids were small and loved it all and enjoyed helping in the garden plus the foster kids enjoyed it as it was new to them too.
Know what helps the exposure to jalapeno powders or juice? Toothpaste.. 8 0
mmm now that would have been a sight to see the year I dried them and made powder ...toothpaste on my nose and around my eyes ...hahahahaha..great Halloween mask
I'll try to start an OT thread today, but to nswer your question about FIL - yes he accompanied us on many other "short" runs. Probably our favorite was/is the upper Guadalupe between Bergheim and the first crossing - about a 4 mile run. We have taken 2 hours to do it and once for fun ran it in 20 minutes.
The campground is very nice - very high, and the crowds are nothing like below Canyon Dam.
More on a new thread.
Be sure to post the link here Bubba so i can find it.. I have always been interested in river rafting, but very afraid, as I dont swim ... but it look so exciting. Heck I wanted to take sky diving lesson at one time ... but i very young (35) and the boss told me I would be able to get insurance. ... but the river rafting stuck ever since I saw that movie with Burt Reynolds ... I would have got in a raft with him for sure. LOL
OK, y'all - I found and put the original Rio Grand story I wrote in 1979 on my DG Blog.
I will break it into separate chapters to make it easier to follow and find references and cross references. (A couple are already done - more as time permits).
Still trying to find the books and maps we used. Have a bunch of pictures, but none are digitized, so that will take a bit longer to get some scanned.
But don;t be shy - If you want to ask specific questions, I'll be happy to answer.
Bill
Well i see on the News everyone is going crazy with these bag worms all over the place. Hopefully the City will take a stand on this... They like the color green ... some people had three cars and they covered the green car with a web and didnt touch the others ... whats up with that?
haven't' seen the bag worms bad here at our place but the ant hills are going crazy.
Hubby picked up some stuff to sprinkle at the opening of the hills for them to take back down but new ones are popping up all over even at the back porch....
I tried re reading the posts but can't find it ...Did someone say using molasses works?
I remember the orange oil too but haven't found it yet either in a store
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So I got home from work yesterday, took off the uncomfortables and put on shorts and T-shirt. Felt something crawling on my arm -- it was a fireant. Looked around for any more, figured it was a fluke and started puttering around the house.
Felt another. Then another. Checked the bathroom -- I'd brushed my hair and thought maybe they were on the brush? No. Then felt another.
Checked the closet, particularly the section where I keep my T-shirts. They were crawling all over them!!! AAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Got out the ant spray and went after the b@$^@&ds, then went outside. They had built a mound up to a weephole and that's how they were getting in. And I do mean WERE. They're in that happy anthill in the sky now.
Ugh. Did you know that if you do manage to kill the queen, any other female can mutate into a queen?
Have read somewhere that there can be up 6 fireant queens in a mound.
Just gets better and better, doesn't it?
Heard a report several years ago - When they first arrived, just 1 Queen per mound, but a few years ago FL-A&M and TX-A&M worked together analyzing a single field with lots of mounds -- there were up to 50 Queens per mound and worse - the mounds were interconnected with underground tunnels.
So would this make the Over and Out product the only one that might, just might possibly help control them or is there no hope?
They are evolving, huh? They are going to take over the world!!
Logic (tm) works, too, but only until new queens fly in and set up houskeeping. - it causes all males to be impotent.
Over and Out will help reduce the beggers, but not for a year - maybe a season. It would take neighboors and civic help - everyone would have to treat at the same intervals. But even then, a big wind during swarming season and they are all back.
hahahaha Bronc just wait till they join DG lol
seriously though no matter what hubby does to keep them away from the house they are gonna keep comin back unless he treats things every couple weeks or every year?
We used to call bag worms the uglies that attached to cedar trees. The things that are devouring everything in sight at my place are called web worms or army worms....very different animal.
Brigidlily ~ a guy here found them in his closet. They ate holes in his dress shirts. He wondered if they were drawn to the starch ~ I said naw they're just fireants. It is a serious problem. I have heard of older folks that may have fallen (in their home) to be covered with them. Makes you get the heeby jeebys about sleeping... I found them one time in the pantry. Everything they were in went immediately into the freezer while I cleaned and sprayed inside and out. Nasty buggers.
Jeepers! .... remind me not to fall!
oh gee now something else for me to look in my bed for at night before laying down...lol...here I still look before getting into bed after labor day when I got stung by a small scorpion when I went to lay down.
Fireants are also known to build mounds in AC units outside. Can pretty much wreck the machinery.
Not to mention underground power and telephone boxes - nothing like a "man-made" shelter that is warm.
A tip I heard was to put mothballs in an outside unit to keep them away. I sprinkle ant poison around the a/c slabs. Fireants will also get into the well pumps and short them out. A real problem unless treated.
Ants are attracted to the electrical current. They will get in the contacts and short it out. We have had to have items serviced a few times and learned quickly to treat these items.
Okay, I have a new one and hope someone will have an answer. We have what I think are Pharaoh (I think that is right) ants in our kitchen. They are basically red sugar ants, I think. They are basically driving me crazy, I know. Don't know where they came from. All of a sudden one day, they were on one counter. Thought initially, it was a fluke so just cleaned them up and went on. Next day, there were more. Can't find a real trail or where they are coming from. I put out ant bait because I read not to spray them that it was better to let them take the bait back to the others and kill the mound (except, I have no idea where the mound is). The kitchen is in the center of the house, so there is no outside wall in direct contact.
I had read that if you wipe your counters down with vinegar, they will stay off that counter ( I would like to have at least one ant free zone in my kitchen), but evidently, these ants never read that because it didn't even slow them down.
Anyway, anyone have a fix for this? Help, please.
Is there a way from a doorway or window behind some mopboard or trim that they could use to conceal theyr trail?
We had some "hide" behing the 1/4 round. Used some cedar-cide on the trim and around the nearby door frame (inside & out). Have not seen them in years, now.
We had sugar ants in our clothes closet several years ago.....soon discovered we also had termites. Some kinds of ants are friendly with the termites. You might have an exterminator that you trust do a termite inspection. sure hope that is not the case...but it was for us.
Can you squirt vinegar around the possible openings? Or are they painted? If I recall correctly (and I may be getting my pests mixed up) they don't like peppermint, so if you could put some peppermint oil on a cotton ball or something and get it where they'll smell it, it might help.
Is there a weephole close by? They love mine.
Sugar ants this summer and they came from the roof ~ down the range vent hood. I doctored them with Terro. It took care of them ~ those were some tiny
buddies! Grrrr....
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And they'll eat ANYTHING.