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That’s a really good question mate, and one I’ve spend a lot of time musing on. From what I can see; by changing our environment to suit our needs, rather than waiting for the environment to change then trying to adapt to it, we’ve taken ourselves – and a lot of species we find useful, wheat, chickens, etc – out of the evolutionary process. Could we become extinct? Sure; if we’re hit by a comet, or have a nuclear war or something. But will a more successful species evolve and out-compete us? I can’t see how that could happen. You would logically assume people who are born super-he
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That’s a really good question mate, and one I’ve spend a lot of time musing on. From what I can see; by changing our environment to suit our needs, rather than waiting for the environment to change then trying to adapt to it, we’ve taken ourselves – and a lot of species we find useful, wheat, chickens, etc – out of the evolutionary process. Could we become extinct? Sure; if we’re hit by a comet, or have a nuclear war or something. But will a more successful species evolve and out-compete us? I can’t see how that could happen. You would logically assume people who are born super-he
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I’ve realised I could add to that – seeing as I’ve got a day off So, once the populations of diggers and runners (hares and rabbits) are established – which could be hundreds, or thousands of miles apart to start with. The hares and rabbits aren’t competing against each other for resources any more, but they are both competing against the original little hare-like creature. And the little hare-like creature has still got to cope with predators that the diggers and runners are better at escaping from. So the little hare-like creature dies out - becomes extinct – so we don’t see any of them
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I think a few of you lads are missing the point on how evolution works. Creatures don’t magically transform from one species to another, no one is suggesting they do. It’s like this: Say thousands and thousands or years ago there was a creature that looked like a little hare. When these creatures were threatened some ran away, others dived down holes. Of the ones that ran away, the faster runners did better. Of the ones that went down holes, the better diggers survived. Over hundreds of generations the runners bred with other runners, the diggers bred with other diggers and eventually th
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I’ve been building a little wall of mud under the trigger plate, then balancing a couple of slabs cut from the bottom of the turfs on top of the jaws to replace the roof of the tunnel and then filling the hole in. It works well, but if other people are just filling the run with soil and still catching I could probably save myself a lot of time.
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Actually mate I’m pretty sure you can – or at least come credibly close. This is going to go way over the god-botherer’s heads, but here’s a rough outline: Since its proposal in the 1960s, the molecular clock has become an essential tool in many areas of evolutionary biology, including systematics, molecular ecology, and conservation genetics. The molecular clock hypothesis states that DNA and protein sequences evolve at a rate that is relatively constant over time and among different organisms. A direct consequence of this constancy is that the genetic difference between any two speci
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Actually mate I’m pretty sure you can – or at least come credibly close. This is going to go way over the god-botherer’s heads, but here’s a rough outline: Since its proposal in the 1960s, the molecular clock has become an essential tool in many areas of evolutionary biology, including systematics, molecular ecology, and conservation genetics. The molecular clock hypothesis states that DNA and protein sequences evolve at a rate that is relatively constant over time and among different organisms. A direct consequence of this constancy is that the genetic difference between any two speci
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Is he actually back-filling the traps or just digging around/under them?
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Bees And Wasps And Oliver Field View
Mr Muddy replied to unclepesta's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
I managed to get a photo of one of the ones at the bottom of my garden. Some of them do look a bit bigger than usual. I couldn’t tell you if they’re Asians though……none of them are wearing turbans :laugh: -
Bees And Wasps And Oliver Field View
Mr Muddy replied to unclepesta's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Sounds like another killer-spiders, mutant-rats, media-bullshit scare story to me. Brace yourself for a load of hysterical callouts for hoverflies, honeybees, basically anything stripy -
Bees And Wasps And Oliver Field View
Mr Muddy replied to unclepesta's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
That video is precisely what I’m talking about; what the f**k harm were those hornets doing half-way up a tree? And the suit that bloke – a frog I’m assuming – was wearing looks like something from Fukushima. Absolutely no kudos for letting the hornets crawl on him while he was wearing that. If he’d done it in his y-fronts, then I’d be impressed. My hat’s off to your mate for relocating them - although I don’t really see how it could work with wasps/hornets, unless you had the whole nest, in a bird box or something. And, of course, we don’t all have our own forest to relocate them -
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Mr Muddy replied to unclepesta's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
Apologies to the snaring / trapping purists for bumping another pest control thread up the forum, but I’ve just seen on another website a bloke boasting that he’s killed more hornets than wasps recently. As a general rule; if someone calls me about hornets I tell them hornets aren’t really that aggressive, they eat a lot of flies and other nuisance bugs, and, unless they are stopping you getting to your house or doing your work, they’re not doing any harm and I’d rather not come and get them. It seems to me that some pesties are now thinking ‘there ain’t enough wasps about – let’s star -
Thanks Lads, I’ll see if I can requisition my wife’s hair dryer.
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Can anyone tell me the best way to get vinyl sign writing off the side of a van? I think they’ve only been on there a year, maybe less. Thanks.
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You can’t avoid a foul catch one in a while mate. If the mole is pushing dirt or stones in front of him, that’s when I usually see it. IMO talpex are the cleanest and tralines are the worst, but nothing I've tried is 100% I don’t want to put you off, just letting you know what to expect.
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I think using words like ‘humane’ actually attracts criticism from nutters. If you just say “I catch moles”, then if someone’s got a problem with that it’s their f*****g problem. I you start using words like ‘humane’, ‘ethical’, ‘eco friendly’ you’re inviting the tree-huggers to start picking holes and asking exactly how humane you are..
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I’m with you on that one; airgun for my own house – bait for everyone else. Nothing to do with resistance, just don’t want a load of dead rats under my floor. If only you could make the punters smell a load of rotting rats, I recon they’d pay the extra to let you do more trapping.
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Thanks Shropshire, I do use a duststick at the moment. I don’t think I could keep control of it if I added any extra sections; that’s why I liked the look of the XL8. but not the price
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Bees And Wasps And Oliver Field View
Mr Muddy replied to unclepesta's topic in Snaring, Trapping & Pest Control
I’m inclined to agree with the beekeeper – I think wasps are probably being killed-off. Every summer there seems to be a wasp nest gold rush, with gardeners, window cleaners, odd-job men all having a crack at them. Perhaps wasp dust should only be used in or around buildings; same as has been suggested for rodentacide. -
I was thinking along those lines: 2nd hand roach pole instead of shelling out £250 for an XL8 lance. How are you getting the dust up it? Running a bit of flexi tube up the fat end of it or just gaffer tapeing it on or what?
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Took the advice of a couple of lads on this forum, Re: only using ‘natural materials’ for fen boxes/tunnels. Set this one under a bird feeder – so far, very happy with the almost immediate results.
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You can see my gripe though re: LA’s being in direct, and unfair, competition with the private sector. And please don’t get me wrong here; I appreciate someone needs to do free or subsidised jobs for all the poor sods on benefits. What I’m saying is, if it’s going to exist, it should be a ‘public service’ like buss-passes etc – or sweeping the M6 - not a business, and certainly not a business actually competing against the very people who are paying tax to fund its losses!
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What’s more; I’m told – and I’m happy to be proved wrong about this – council pest departments usually all run as a massive loss!
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Nice pictures!! Will squirrels go for any other spreadable stuff, other than peanut butter?
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The Distict Councl has just sent out their A4 glossy magazine; through the post - all at council-tax payers expense - and on the back cover; a half page colour advert, with prices, for their own wasp control service. That has to be the ultimate ‘unfair competition’.