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Category Archives: Cat and Pest Control
Maggot Wars: Return of the Worm
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Cat and Pest Control, Gardening, Worm Farm/Vermiculture
Tagged compost, flowers, fruit, herbs, maggot wars, maggots, plant, vegetable, vermiculture, worm compost, worm farm, worm tea, worms
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Easy Peesy Snail Traps
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Cat and Pest Control, Gardening, Nifty Thrifty Ideas
Tagged ale, aluminium container, beer, container, destruction, garden, Gardening, pest, pest control, pests, recycle, slugs, snail, trap, weapon, weapons of snail destruction
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Maggot Wars: The Worms Strike Back
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Cat and Pest Control, Gardening, Worm Farm/Vermiculture
Tagged , can'o'worms, christmas, compost, destruction, disaster, fertiliser, fly, garbage, Gardening, green bottle fly, invasion, liquid fertiliser, maggot, mango, peach, plum, recycle, removal, rotten, smell, stench, vermiculture, weapons, weapons of maggot destruction, worm, worm farm
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Feline Frenzy
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Cat and Pest Control, Gardening
Tagged cats, citronella, dead, do-gooder, feline, kitten, pregnant, rspca, skank, social worker, starve, water pistols
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The Ongoing Maggot War
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Cat and Pest Control, Gardening, Worm Farm/Vermiculture
Tagged bottom layer, bread, christmas, flies, fly, fly control, food, layer, maggots, middle layer, milk, pest, pest control, rain water, soil, top layer, vermiculture, worm, worm farm, worm juice, worm tea
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