Archive for the 'Cat and Pest Control' Category

Maggot Wars: Return of the Worm

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

I have checked the worm farm today and was greeted by a magnificent site. Worms wonderful worms everywhere. The little buggers have bred prolifically and have a large food reserve to chomp through.

There was still the unmistakable aroma of maggots. However, on inspection I removed the milk soaked bread. The bread […]

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Easy Peesy Snail Traps

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Yesterday it rained a bit in New South Wales. Thankfully, it did not rain as much in Sydney as it did in the Northern Rivers area, check out (Flooding in the Northern Rivers). However, rain is a double edged sword for us gardening types. The pro’s are that we get a day […]

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Maggot Wars: The Worms Strike Back

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

One of the less pleasant jobs that I completed today was checking on the status of the ongoing maggot war that all began when there was a disaster in the worm farm caused by the infamous green bottle fly and a piece of unidentified Christmas meat. After the hideous task of manual removal last […]

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Feline Frenzy

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Well the RSPCA has still not responded to my plea for intervention lodged prior to Christmas. Since then there has a subsequent kitten death. Unfortunately, the poor little bugger died in our driveway. It was so skinny that it appears to have starved to death. The creature was of course left […]

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The Ongoing Maggot War

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Today I performed the horrid task of removing maggots from the worm farm. As mentioned in my Disaster in the Worm Farm post these horrid creatures invaded over Christmas and quickly became the dominant critter in the worm farm. As per the advice of a number of sites I placed milk soaked bread […]

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