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Cornhole Champ

Cornhole Champ

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The bane of my yard, they have both been taken care of. They are a scourge on society. Next is gonna be the skunk family!





Any critters you are battling?
 
CasketCaseZombie

CasketCaseZombie

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kvr28 said:
The bane of my yard, they have both been taken care of. They are a scourge on society. Next is gonna be the skunk family!





Any critters you are battling?
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Armadillos root in my yard every night. Fresh crop of new holes every morning. We have box turtles but they’re no trouble.
 
Lennybishop

Lennybishop

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Nov 17, 2023
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Moved to the country in November. Gopher/moles can go fuck themselves. Damn near twisted and ankle. Falling into an old burrow. I agree. They are the scourge of the earth.
 
IschKabibble

IschKabibble

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It must have been a gopher in the street the other night. It looked alien. Don't think we had them in Florida. lol
 
segfault

segfault

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Baby bunnies are this season's menace. Adorable little pains in the ass. Had to run rabbit fencing around the entire perimeter to keep them out. I went Tom Homan on successive generations of groundhogs, so my yard is free from them for now.

Far enough from a creek to not to have to deal with snappers. Glad for that.
 
CasketCaseZombie

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kvr28 said:
For some reason I thought you were in the NorthEast, is it legal to shoot them?
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Nope, FL boy born and bred, when I die I’ll be FL dead. I live near Tallahassee. Snakes, gators, and all that good shit.
And yes, we can legally shoot armadillos on our own property, but you’re technically supposed to shoot them during daylight and they’re nocturnal.
 
MountainMedic

MountainMedic

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segfault said:
Baby bunnies are this season's menace. Adorable little pains in the ass. Had to run rabbit fencing around the entire perimeter to keep them out. I went Tom Homan on successive generations of groundhogs, so my yard is free from them for now.

Far enough from a creek to not to have to deal with snappers. Glad for that.
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You need a cat
 
Uncle Tom Doug

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kvr28 said:
The bane of my yard, they have both been taken care of. They are a scourge on society. Next is gonna be the skunk family!





Any critters you are battling?
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I think that's a groundhog, not a gopher. I usually have to shoot at least a half dozen of them every year in my back yard. Those fuckers eat some of my plants at the beginning of every season. It's been cool and rainy this year, so I haven't seen them out too often, and so far, they've left my plants alone.
 
Papi Chingon

Papi Chingon

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Cornhole Champ said:
The bane of my yard, they have both been taken care of. They are a scourge on society. Next is gonna be the skunk family!





Any critters you are battling?
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Large flying grasshoppers ruined ALL my nectarines, pluerry, and peaches. They nibble at them ever so slightly and they rotted off the trees. Slugs, caterpillars, grubs, pill bugs... disgusting creatures.
 
Cornhole Champ

Cornhole Champ

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Papi Chingon said:
Large flying grasshoppers ruined ALL my nectarines, pluerry, and peaches. They nibble at them ever so slightly and they rotted off the trees. Slugs, caterpillars, grubs, pill bugs... disgusting creatures.
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Used to be chipmunks with our strawberries, the cats have taken care of that problem
 
MountainMedic

MountainMedic

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Papi Chingon said:
Large flying grasshoppers ruined ALL my nectarines, pluerry, and peaches. They nibble at them ever so slightly and they rotted off the trees. Slugs, caterpillars, grubs, pill bugs... disgusting creatures.
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I can't remember what bug it was but something was wrecking my first garden in 92. Next year I tried again and happened to plant pinto beans. That year the same bugs came back, but just stayed in the beans, everything else was fine.

So for the next few years til I moved from that house I always planted a bed of "sacrifice beans" and never had problems. It was weird but it worked.
 
CasketCaseZombie

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This little fucker was in my yard yesterday morning. Don’t judge my grass: I just cut it the other day but it’s fucking monsoon season here and it’s growing like crazy.
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W

Wiggy

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Ants. Quite literally my entire neighborhood seems to be on top of a humongous ant colony. I see ant hills in every yard, coming up through cracks in the street, cracks in people's driveways, etc.

I don't have *that* big of a front / back yard, and between the two, it's not uncommon to walk through it and have 20-30 ant hills. I've tried virtually everything and I think the underground colony is so vast that there would be no way for me alone to get ride of them.

I remember like two years ago seeing where they were apparently tunneling a new area or something, as one morning I came out to my back yard (which butts up against the woods) and there was this line of small new mini-anthills...each one maybe 2-3" wide and maybe 1-1.5" high. There'd be a new one every 4-6" or so. The shit went on for a good 40-50 feet or longer.
 
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