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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

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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