Austinist: Truesday: We [Might Be?] *ex Per\/erts

jack

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:12:15 -0600

so funny.

Kat

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:32:23 -0600

Excellent point (about the dogs and possums). Fingers of apple juice has a better ring to it anyway. You may also try sticky fly paper right next to each nest, but then you would have to put your HAND right next to each nest. Good luck in any case.

truecraig

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:03:48 -0600

Word to Doug (I think). Brother Nick, the pushmower really isn't so bad (depending on the variety of grass you must battle). It's rather liberating. Kat, if I were to hang a chunk of meat over a soapy bowl anywhere near my crib, I would need hordes of daredevil wasps to scare off all the damned stray dogs and teethy opossums. Fly and ant populations do swell around my house, with or without the threat of wasps. Again, there would need to be thousands of wasps to do any real benefit, but then my home would be condemned by the city as a general hazard to humans after the mailman turned my ass in. That, and I'd get stung all the goddamn time. But I might try the apple juice trick! (“fingers of applejuice” – that sounds like a cool euphemism) I had to change the title to be more “cloaked”. That’s why it looks like a twelve year-old’s myspace profile name. In it’s original form, it was getting blocked out by several corporate web-content filters (mine, specifically). Apologies for the lameness, but that’s how this particular post must be titled. That’s right. I’m pussy-footin’…

Kat

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:18:22 -0600

Wasps kill flies and many other garden pests and are a lot less likely than flies to pay you any mind, provided you don't let them get out of hand (like in your garage). Try putting some old milk jugs with a few fingers of apple juice or another sweet drink in your garage or wherever else you have a problem. Another good trap is a bucket full of soapy water with a piece of fish or meat suspended over the water. The wasps/yellow jackets will go to rip off a chunk of meat, fall into the water, and voila--one less bug to bug you.

brother nick

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:09:38 -0600

Wow, from perverts to wasps. weird Push mowers are still around? I thought by now they were novelty items. cruel cruel world. Ever think about growing veggies inside by a window sill like in school?

Doug

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:27:09 -0600

Holy shit, I'm dying from that amazing blurb.