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Nikkorott
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- Apr 17, 2015
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- Central Valley, Ca.
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- MF 30E, BCS 832, Deere 3720, Ferrari 95

You little ignoramuses , shame on you.,,,,I don't know about California ground squirrels. Here, we have 13 lined ground squirrels. As kids, we'd take a couple quart canning jars full of water and chase the ground squirrel until it ran into it's hole. Then we'd dump one, then two jars of water down the hole and put the last jar over the hole. Give it a couple seconds and the ground squirrel pops up in the jar. You quickly tip the jar and put the lid on it. Worked surprisingly well. But, then you have a squirrel in a jar. Then you wondered why you did that. Then you felt kinda bad about that and let it go and went and found something else to do.
I was known as "that kid" in our neighborhood.You must have ran around with some weird kids.,,,,,wait a minute,we did something almost that stupid one day.
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We did it with carpenter bees when the azaleas bloomed.You must have ran around with some weird kids.,,,,,wait a minute,we did something almost that stupid one day.
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Please feel free to kill all the carpenter bees.We did it with carpenter bees when the azaleas bloomed.
The critters may be the same but you're situation is a whole lot different than mine. I'm trying to keep them from tearing up a thousand feet of gravel driveway. How many acres are you looking at there?Ground squirrels are a HUGE problem around here. Their mounds, hidden in tall alfalfa for instance, tear up a lot of equipment. Some of the big farms around here offer a bounty of $1 a tail and invite shooters to come out and shoot all they want. They even put ads in the paper, asking people to come out and shoot the darn things. I also see workers out using the propane injectors in the fields.
Every year, early spring, I mount my box scraper on my tractor and go out and level out those mounds as best I can to make mowing easier come June. (The squirrels come out right around Christmas, and then disappear - hibernate - around the 1st of July. It's not unusual for me to sit in my Jeep with my .22 and shoot 100 at a sitting, yet it doesn't seem to hurt the population at all.