Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[mikem]

it's about 20 degrees warmer than the average for this time of year. it feels like may.

chantel, why can't you enroll yourself? that seems odd =/

[mikem]

herp derp lets expose our snakes to naphtalene and see if it repels them

a simple "nope, doesn't work" would suffice.

[Stefan-A]

a simple "nope, doesn't work" would suffice.

Yeah.


http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/vi...ontext=gpwdcwp
"potential repellents did not result in significant avoidance behavior."

[mikem]

good read. interesting how it may actually be an attractant. i'm not sure where the moth ball thing started. i think they will help keep mice and rats away, so you're not going to have as many predators in the area hunting for rodents.

[ConcinusMan]

Does a heck of a lot more than keep rodents away. It kills many of them. My late uncle used to put mothballs in a camper trailer to guard against rodent invasion. We would occasionally open the trailer and find dead mice scattered about.

[mikem]

was that because it was closed up? would it have the same effect on them outdoors?

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was because it's an enclosed space. One lung full of the gas and they were dead in short order. The whole myth of mothballs repelling snakes probably comes from the fact that mothballs keep rodents away. No rodents, no snakes will come.

[Stefan-A]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was because it's an enclosed space. One lung full of the gas and they were dead in short order. The whole myth of mothballs repelling snakes probably comes from the fact that mothballs keep rodents away. No rodents, no snakes will come.

According to what I've read since they posted that video, it seems that it's possibly even more toxic for reptiles, than for mammals.

[kibakiba]

In that snakebytes video at 3:56 it looks like he shook the snake a little.. I really hope I just saw that wrong... If they shook the snake, plus the moth ball thing.... I want to shake their bodies hard and shove a mothball down their throat.

[katach]

What area are you heading to in the puget sound Richard?