"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. > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > -- Ellen Hornig 212 Grafton St Shrewsbury MA 01545 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…