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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Spring's first!
  • Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:57:32 -0700 (PDT)

Gene,
Is your house out there near the edge of developed
area. We never had scorpions in the center of the
city. I guess we were just too far from their natural
habitat?
Van Dell

--- Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 22, 2007, at 12:30 PM,
> <shepperd AT austincc.edu>
> <shepperd AT austincc.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > We have several cats. They do a good job in
> keeping the mice
> > population
> > down and we haven't seen any rattlesnakes in
> several months, but
> > they don't
> > seem to have any affect on the scorpion
> population. Or, and this
> > may be the
> > case, the number of scorpions could be much higher
> without the cats.
>
> Our best anti-scorpion weapon thus far has been
> sticky traps. Lots of
> sticky traps. We catch them behind the fridge and
> below the head
> section of the bed as well as closets and other
> places. This house
> has seven pocket doors. We have been told that
> scorpions just love
> such hideouts.
>
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