Re: [MBZ] OT: More acorns = more chipmunks
Did you learn that from me? I've been doing it for 2 or 3 years. Started with white glue but it took too long. I used to use sunflower seeds but we had a bag of stale almonds... -Curt On Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 11:37:06 AM EDT, Mitch Haley via Mercedes wrote: On Tue, July 21, 2020 11:30 am, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: > What bait do you use to trap them? I hotglue almonds to Victor rat trap triggers. I'm interested in hearing what Curt does. Everybody who has tried the rat electrocution boxes swears by them. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: More acorns = more chipmunks
I hot glue almonds to the bait pad on the trap. I'd formerly used white glue but needed faster turn around on my traps. In the spring a trap might get 2-3 hits a day. Also skunks and mice can get the almonds either without triggering the traps or while being missed although I do catch a number of mice also. The other thing I learned was to screw the trap to a piece of 2x4 thats about 2 feet long. That way if I don't see a chipmunk in the trap before nightfall when a skunk takes the body it doesn't take the trap away with it... -Curt On Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 11:30:37 AM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: What bait do you use to trap them? On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:48 AM Curt Raymond wrote: I've removed 13 chippies from the gene pool so far this year, 12 here at our house and one at my parent's place. The vast majority of those have been trapped, they're very hard to shoot being so small and naturally camouflaged. I'm working on getting a new airgun. The one I have is a cheapo Wal-Mart special. I'm debating between made in Turkey with a German barrel or made in Germany for more money. I know standard wisdom is to pay up front but the Turkish made guns have a good reputation. -Curt On Monday, July 20, 2020, 3:28:08 PM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: I thought of Curt when reading this article. Are chipmunks more or less of a nuisance than squirrels? WILDLIFE More nuts mean more chipmunks wreaking havoc Published: Monday, July 20, 2020 [image: Chipmunk. Photo credit: University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension] Chipmunks are on the rise in New England, fueled by a large crop of acorns last fall. University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension There were plenty of acorns this spring, and now the chipmunks are driving people nuts. Their frenetic activities can be entertaining. But this summer in New England, the varmints are making a nuisance of themselves, darting to and fro, digging holes in gardens, and tunneling under lawns. Plentiful acorns last fall meant there was still plenty of food on the ground when the chipmunks emerged from winter and got busy breeding this spring, said Shevenell Webb, a small mammal biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The result is a bumper crop of the critters. "They're cute. They're fun to watch in the forest as they duck in and out of the holes and play peekaboo," Webb said. When their cheeks aren't bulging with nuts, chipmunks make a distinctive "chip" sound, she said. But they're also destructive. They can destroy lawns and gardens with their burrowing, and can even get into homes, Webb said. "We can't grow a tulip without them digging it up," Steven Parren, wildlife diversity program manager for the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, said of the chipmunks in his yard. "They don't even pause." There were so many acorns in one of the areas that he monitors that the rodents that rely on them couldn't stash them all away for the winter. Plenty remained on the ground this spring. In addition to chipmunks, he said, he's seeing more squirrels, rabbits and a variety of different kinds of mice. People needn't get too alarmed over an overpopulation. Small mammal populations tend to explode, then crash and burn. Such is life near the bottom of the food chain, where food supply ebbs and flows and chipmunks are easy prey for owls, hawks, snakes, foxes and raccoons. Even if their lives aren't cut short, individual chipmunks tend to live only for three years, Webb said. Many New Englanders recall a similar spike in squirrel populations in 2018 in New England. The boom-and-bust cycle was punctuated by a memorable number of road kills. "We've never seen anything like that. That was a once-in-a-lifetime event," Webb said. *— Associated Press* ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: More acorns = more chipmunks
Electrocution sounds humane but what do they look like? Got a link? On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:37 AM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > On Tue, July 21, 2020 11:30 am, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: > > What bait do you use to trap them? > > I hotglue almonds to Victor rat trap triggers. > I'm interested in hearing what Curt does. > Everybody who has tried the rat electrocution boxes swears by them. > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: More acorns = more chipmunks
I like this idea. -D > On Jul 21, 2020, at 11:34 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes > wrote: > > On Tue, July 21, 2020 11:30 am, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: >> What bait do you use to trap them? > > I hotglue almonds to Victor rat trap triggers. > I'm interested in hearing what Curt does. > Everybody who has tried the rat electrocution boxes swears by them. > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: More acorns = more chipmunks
On Tue, July 21, 2020 11:30 am, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: > What bait do you use to trap them? I hotglue almonds to Victor rat trap triggers. I'm interested in hearing what Curt does. Everybody who has tried the rat electrocution boxes swears by them. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: More acorns = more chipmunks
What bait do you use to trap them? On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 10:48 AM Curt Raymond wrote: > I've removed 13 chippies from the gene pool so far this year, 12 here at > our house and one at my parent's place. The vast majority of those have > been trapped, they're very hard to shoot being so small and naturally > camouflaged. > > I'm working on getting a new airgun. The one I have is a cheapo Wal-Mart > special. I'm debating between made in Turkey with a German barrel or made > in Germany for more money. I know standard wisdom is to pay up front but > the Turkish made guns have a good reputation. > > -Curt > > On Monday, July 20, 2020, 3:28:08 PM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > I thought of Curt when reading this article. > > Are chipmunks more or less of a nuisance than squirrels? > > WILDLIFE > More nuts mean more chipmunks wreaking havoc > > Published: Monday, July 20, 2020 > [image: Chipmunk. Photo credit: University of New Hampshire Cooperative > Extension] > > Chipmunks are on the rise in New England, fueled by a large crop of acorns > last fall. University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension > > There were plenty of acorns this spring, and now the chipmunks are driving > people nuts. > > Their frenetic activities can be entertaining. But this summer in New > England, the varmints are making a nuisance of themselves, darting to and > fro, digging holes in gardens, and tunneling under lawns. > > Plentiful acorns last fall meant there was still plenty of food on the > ground when the chipmunks emerged from winter and got busy breeding this > spring, said Shevenell Webb, a small mammal biologist with the Maine > Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. > > The result is a bumper crop of the critters. > > "They're cute. They're fun to watch in the forest as they duck in and out > of the holes and play peekaboo," Webb said. When their cheeks aren't > bulging with nuts, chipmunks make a distinctive "chip" sound, she said. > > But they're also destructive. They can destroy lawns and gardens with their > burrowing, and can even get into homes, Webb said. > > "We can't grow a tulip without them digging it up," Steven Parren, wildlife > diversity program manager for the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, > said of the chipmunks in his yard. "They don't even pause." > > There were so many acorns in one of the areas that he monitors that the > rodents that rely on them couldn't stash them all away for the winter. > Plenty remained on the ground this spring. In addition to chipmunks, he > said, he's seeing more squirrels, rabbits and a variety of different kinds > of mice. > > People needn't get too alarmed over an overpopulation. Small mammal > populations tend to explode, then crash and burn. > > Such is life near the bottom of the food chain, where food supply ebbs and > flows and chipmunks are easy prey for owls, hawks, snakes, foxes and > raccoons. Even if their lives aren't cut short, individual chipmunks tend > to live only for three years, Webb said. > > Many New Englanders recall a similar spike in squirrel populations in 2018 > in New England. The boom-and-bust cycle was punctuated by a memorable > number of road kills. > > "We've never seen anything like that. That was a once-in-a-lifetime event," > Webb said. *— Associated Press* > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: More acorns = more chipmunks
I've removed 13 chippies from the gene pool so far this year, 12 here at our house and one at my parent's place. The vast majority of those have been trapped, they're very hard to shoot being so small and naturally camouflaged. I'm working on getting a new airgun. The one I have is a cheapo Wal-Mart special. I'm debating between made in Turkey with a German barrel or made in Germany for more money. I know standard wisdom is to pay up front but the Turkish made guns have a good reputation. -Curt On Monday, July 20, 2020, 3:28:08 PM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: I thought of Curt when reading this article. Are chipmunks more or less of a nuisance than squirrels? WILDLIFE More nuts mean more chipmunks wreaking havoc Published: Monday, July 20, 2020 [image: Chipmunk. Photo credit: University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension] Chipmunks are on the rise in New England, fueled by a large crop of acorns last fall. University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension There were plenty of acorns this spring, and now the chipmunks are driving people nuts. Their frenetic activities can be entertaining. But this summer in New England, the varmints are making a nuisance of themselves, darting to and fro, digging holes in gardens, and tunneling under lawns. Plentiful acorns last fall meant there was still plenty of food on the ground when the chipmunks emerged from winter and got busy breeding this spring, said Shevenell Webb, a small mammal biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. The result is a bumper crop of the critters. "They're cute. They're fun to watch in the forest as they duck in and out of the holes and play peekaboo," Webb said. When their cheeks aren't bulging with nuts, chipmunks make a distinctive "chip" sound, she said. But they're also destructive. They can destroy lawns and gardens with their burrowing, and can even get into homes, Webb said. "We can't grow a tulip without them digging it up," Steven Parren, wildlife diversity program manager for the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, said of the chipmunks in his yard. "They don't even pause." There were so many acorns in one of the areas that he monitors that the rodents that rely on them couldn't stash them all away for the winter. Plenty remained on the ground this spring. In addition to chipmunks, he said, he's seeing more squirrels, rabbits and a variety of different kinds of mice. People needn't get too alarmed over an overpopulation. Small mammal populations tend to explode, then crash and burn. Such is life near the bottom of the food chain, where food supply ebbs and flows and chipmunks are easy prey for owls, hawks, snakes, foxes and raccoons. Even if their lives aren't cut short, individual chipmunks tend to live only for three years, Webb said. Many New Englanders recall a similar spike in squirrel populations in 2018 in New England. The boom-and-bust cycle was punctuated by a memorable number of road kills. "We've never seen anything like that. That was a once-in-a-lifetime event," Webb said. *— Associated Press* ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
