[Market-farming] Was groundhogs, now crickets

Robert Farr rbfarr at erols.com
Sat Apr 5 13:17:31 EDT 2008


I must admit - I drown the groundhogs, too.  Fill up a 50-gallon drum 
with water, put the cage in, wait 10 min., leave as an offering to the 
buzzards...

For crickets, use glue traps you find at the hardward store - they work 
great!


Robert Farr
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Pam Twin Oaks wrote:

>Groundhogs can eat so much! After I saw one running off with a whole
>cantaloupe in its mouth, I got serious about getting rid of them. I
>catch them in a large live trap (initially I borrowed one from the
>extension office). For bait I use fruit or winter squash. Part of the
>trick is getting the trap level and right in front of their main
>entrance. Sometimes, especially once the grass has grown up a bit, it
>takes a bit of detective work to figure out where they are coming
>from. When I catch one, I take the trap to the pond, throw the whole
>thing in near the edge but deep enough. And wait a few minutes till
>it's definitely dead. Shooting might be a quicker death, but hunting
>is not allowed here either. We have eaten groundhog stew sometimes.
>Other times I just bury it.
>
>Now, about crickets - who has good, organic ways of getting rid of
>those? We have a problem right now, with them in our hoophouse. We
>also get late summer trouble from them and/or grasshoppers outdoors in
>August. I looked into Nolo Bait, but it's expensive and slow acting,
>especially over a farm size area.
>
>Pam, Twin Oaks Community, Louisa, Va. Zone 7
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