Looking for some Hillbilly info

[mx'r]

So I now own a large piece of property on the east coast and need some info. The property is mostly wooded with a huge pond at the lower end. The problem I've got to deal with is BUGS! Mainly ticks and spiders. I'm wanting to spray or put out pellitized poison, but am affraid it will hurt the aquatic life in the pond. Soooo, I was thinking DUCKS. Anyone now anything about this kinda stuff??

[rondog]

You could probably firebomb the whole property, and within a day or two the blackened remains would be crawling with bugs again. That ain't Colorado you're talking about. Might as well try to make it "not humid" too while you're at it. After living here, I can't stand humid places with jillions of bugs.

[Bailey Guns]

Just get a bug zapper. You can sit on the porch, drink lots of generic beer and entertain yourself watching bugs get zapped.

Sorry...that's all I got.

[SideShow Bob]

Just get a bug zapper. You can sit on the porch, drink lots of generic beer and entertain yourself watching bugs get zapped.

Sorry...that's all I got.

Add eating pizza with hot sauce on it to that list..........

[JM Ver. 2.0]

So I now own a large piece of property on the east coast and need some info. The property is mostly wooded with a huge pond at the lower end. The problem I've got to deal with is BUGS! Mainly ticks and spiders. I'm wanting to spray or put out pellitized poison, but am affraid it will hurt the aquatic life in the pond. Soooo, I was thinking DUCKS. Anyone now anything about this kinda stuff??

This is gonna sound like an odd suggestion...


www.ArcheryTalk.com/VB Roll over there and ask around... Lots of east coast land owners... They're all gonna be archery hunters who hate bugs just like you do... See what they suggest.

[GilpinGuy]

Yeah man, Rondog is right. Fighting bugs is like herding cats. You might have some success in a small area, like a porch, but defeating the bugs around a pond is a fruitless effort.

I use the "bug bombs" for spiders in my house and they work great, but you'd need a lot of them for a large pond. The EPA might have a problem with that as well.

Sweet truck you sold to whiskeyjack by the way.

[tmjohnson]

Ducks and chickens eat just about any kind of bug. It would take alot of birds though.
Only problem is having that many ducks or chickens is you would draw every coyote, bobcat and fox for 5 miles around

[Mtn.man]

Ducks and chickens eat just about any kind of bug. It would take alot of birds though.
Only problem is having that many ducks or chickens is you would draw every coyote, bobcat and fox for 5 miles around

not to mention wearing rubber boots 24/7 to navigate the shit.

[ChadAmberg]

I'm always amazed at how bad the bugs are when I head back east. Drives me insane....
There are a few things you can do against any particular thing, like the giant CO2 emitter you put way out in the corner of your property to help a little bit of the mosquito issue.

[Scanker19]

When I live in Kentucky a few years ago I tired to repel the bugs as well. After a while I just invited them in for coffee. The spiders were nice enough and polite but the wood roaches had bad BO and couldn't take a hint. The. They wanted to borrow everything. I also had a pet slug named Frank, I miss frank.