pbs Digest, Vol 38, Issue 8 Now Voles

Ellen Hornig hornig@oswego.edu
Fri, 10 Apr 2020 05:06:21 PDT
"How to kill things" is not a topic I particularly warm up to, but I can't
resist passing along a tip a friend gave me for dealing with woodchucks (a
project which, as far as I know, will never succeed).  She recommended
smearing aconitum leaves with peanut butter.  Has anyone ever heard of this?

Ellen
Massachusetts, USA

On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 6:52 AM D. K. <drkuonen@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I googled "make your own rat poison" and got this:
> "Combine 1 cup of flour or cornmeal with 1 cup of sugar or powdered
> chocolate mix. Add 1 cup of baking soda and blend the mixture very well.
> The sugar or chocolate will attract the rats and the baking soda will soon
> kill them after they've consumed it. Fill some jar lids about half full
> with the rat bait."
> Notice it's a 1:1:1 ratio of the ingredients, so you can make it up in
> smaller amounts, even Tbsps. for a trial use.
> I have not tried it yet;I plan to use it under my closed-in crawl space,
> where I know no other animals will have access to it.
>
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Ellen Hornig
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