Camping!
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I like a double shot straight - it is heaven!
I like a double shot straight - it is heaven!
Ozumoz66
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This little mud nest was behind a hinge of a storage compartment. Not sure what those green things were, guessing caterpillars. The fat one at the bottom was interesting. Eviction notice served.
The other end of the slide through compartment had a nest made of grass clippings - about a foot wide - guessing chipmunk or red squirrel. Feckers. Extension cord was chewed on. Taped up some cracks on the underbelly and spray foamed above the propane tank compartments. Will use copper mesh in some access holes. I was reminded that it's a conservation area (so no traps) and not a trailer park. May as well call it a gated community.
The other end of the slide through compartment had a nest made of grass clippings - about a foot wide - guessing chipmunk or red squirrel. Feckers. Extension cord was chewed on. Taped up some cracks on the underbelly and spray foamed above the propane tank compartments. Will use copper mesh in some access holes. I was reminded that it's a conservation area (so no traps) and not a trailer park. May as well call it a gated community.
That great big one looks like some sort of an alien.
raratt
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The large one is the wasp larva. The female goes out and stings the caterpillars to put them in a kind of coma to act as food for the larva until it metamorphizes into another wasp and breaks out of the cocoon.
As a young teen I crashed into a hibiscus hedge in S Fla finding a ton of IO Moth Caterpillars.
1 - 10, would not recommend!
1 - 10, would not recommend!
Ozumoz66
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Finally found where the red squirrel was getting and plugged it with some copper mesh. Will add spray foam insulation to the area as well. Also purchased a pound of cayenne pepper powder and pepper flakes to spread underneath the trailer. 
Set up this trail cam that captured a raccoon but ai thinks it's a cat.
Set up this trail cam that captured a raccoon but ai thinks it's a cat.
Verbal_Vaper
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Love camping here in the UK , or France has some really good spots . Would love go try the states and Canada
Ozumoz66
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Tamiasciurus hudsonicu aka assholes of campgrounds commonly known as red squirrels. The half pound of cayenne pepper and hot pepper flakes did nothing to deter their presence, nor the rabbitsor raccoons. It did rain so ill spread the other half pound. But the spray foam insulation should keep the squirrels out of the trailer. Seen here eating pine cone seeds.
Verbal_Vaper
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Sir Napsalot
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I'd use my longbow and a blunt arrowTamiasciurus hudsonicu aka assholes of campgrounds commonly known as red squirrels. The half pound of cayenne pepper and hot pepper flakes did nothing to deter their presence, nor the rabbitsor raccoons. It did rain so ill spread the other half pound. But the spray foam insulation should keep the squirrels out of the trailer. Seen here eating pine cone seeds.
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Ozumoz66
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Although a silent solution, you'd need many arrows as there's seemingly an endless supply of them. That'd also be sure way to get one evicted from this conservation area. Even a slingshot would be forbidden here. Red squirrels are a protected species in this province.
We know of at least two trailers this year that were written off by insurance due to red squirrels getting into them and wrecking things. The black and grey squirrels don't invade and occupy trailers. Sealing points of entry seems to be our only defense against these crafty tree rats.
