Non human natives
I read the post and thought they meant the drinking water.
Jun 9th 2009, 12:14 pm
#19
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Re: Non human natives
Aha, that would be telling......
As beer is more inportant than water, I wanted the salty type analysis.
Thanks for the feedback everyone, appreciated.
As beer is more inportant than water, I wanted the salty type analysis.
Thanks for the feedback everyone, appreciated.
Jun 9th 2009, 11:00 pm
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Re: Non human natives
[QUOTE=Wellington Will;7644036]I got a Weta in my hair on day 5 in the rental house.
I think it was hiding in some boxes I was moving, but I felt something twisting around, reached up and pulled this amber-brown jurassic looking beastie from my hair.
There was this sort of primeval scream from deep within. Bit like a bearded 3 year-old girl.
We've see a few since, and one of our friends has a weta hotel in his garden, a hollowed out tree trunk stuffed full of the be-tentacled monsters.
We've also killed 2 White tailed spiders in the house - one in the bedroom - and are currently battling a mouse that has managed to avoid the traps for over a week.
We've been here for 4 months.
try putting peanut butter in the trap worked first time for us
I think it was hiding in some boxes I was moving, but I felt something twisting around, reached up and pulled this amber-brown jurassic looking beastie from my hair.
There was this sort of primeval scream from deep within. Bit like a bearded 3 year-old girl.
We've see a few since, and one of our friends has a weta hotel in his garden, a hollowed out tree trunk stuffed full of the be-tentacled monsters.
We've also killed 2 White tailed spiders in the house - one in the bedroom - and are currently battling a mouse that has managed to avoid the traps for over a week.
We've been here for 4 months.
try putting peanut butter in the trap worked first time for us
Last edited by minky; Jun 9th 2009 at 11:01 pm. Reason: spelling
Jun 10th 2009, 4:05 am
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Re: Non human natives
I've only had 1 weta in the 3½ years i've been in New Zealand, but probably hundreds of whitetails as we live in the centre of bush, you kind of get used to them!
We've had a rat in the spare room (lots of the little buggers managed to get in the back of the kitchen cupboard and ate the rat poisin in it's tub
and the dishwasher pipe!), that we managed to chase out!!
I've no idea how the weta got into the house but it was just sat in the middle of the lounge and HUGE!
We've had a rat in the spare room (lots of the little buggers managed to get in the back of the kitchen cupboard and ate the rat poisin in it's tub
and the dishwasher pipe!), that we managed to chase out!!I've no idea how the weta got into the house but it was just sat in the middle of the lounge and HUGE!
