To: | "RICHARD BOYD" <ke3q@msn.com>,"towertalk reflector" <towertalk@contesting.com>,"ABowenN4OO" <abowen@nettally.com> |
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Subject: | Re: [TowerTalk] Moth Balls |
From: | "K8RI on Tower Talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net> |
Date: | Fri, 14 Jan 2005 15:07:15 -0500 |
List-post: | <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com> |
I grab a hand full of mothballs and throw them into the conduit where it
comes into the basement every fall.I will be implementing this tip in all the places I will have that will be like this. My plan is to put a utility box (I have 13 of the utility company-type light green ones) at the base of each tower as a junction for coax coming down the tower and the coax to the shack -- for ground, etc. Just sitting around, these boxes clearly are an attractive nest site for wasps. I hope the moth balls will keep them all out. The little suckers are not harmless. They bite and many people are alergic to the venom. Besides, it hurts when they bite. I don't get 20 or 30, I get thousands and thousands of the little buggers. I find masses of the things 8 or 10 inches across. The last couple of years in the Fall they cover the entire south wall of my shop day after day. You can't walk between the house and shop without being bitten several times. Now days, most of what we see are not Lady Bugs, but Asian beetles. They are difficult to tell apart. I don't know if they can tell either. because they eat aphids, which in turn eat roses, and are more charming than most insects, I'm not too worried about them. Wait till the suckers are crawling on your walls, in your drinks, in the sink, on the table, in your hair (they have a hard time finding mine). Even being environmentally minded I'd rather spray the roses than put up with tens of thousands of these darn critters. That and for some reason my yard has become very popular for Yellow Jackets (the mean tempered ones) and paper wasps. Two years ago I destroyed over 40 nests and nearly that many last Summer. That is on a one acre lot. The got behind the siding on the south end of the house and built a nest to large it pushed the siding off at the peak. Roger Halstead (K8RI, EN73 & ARRL Life Member) N833R, World's Oldest Debonair (S# CD-2) www.rogerhalstead.com
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