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In your opinion what is the most annoying pest in your area? In my area I'd have to say wasps and mice. The mice get into the tiniest little crevices and make such a mess.

mice and ants

We have a lot of slugs and my garden used to be full of hostas but the slugs made such a mess of the leaves that we had to take them all out. I hate the little blighters!

Honey said:

In your opinion what is the most annoying pest in your area? In my area I'd have to say wasps and mice. The mice get into the tiniest little crevices and make such a mess.

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SKUNKS...they make a terrible mess of the yard when they dig up grubs.

For me, it's moles.
I've trapped 284 of the little beasts over the years but My 5 acres are surrounded by thick woods so new ones move in constantly.
I've been doing battle with them for 20 years and there's no end it sight.
Rich

rmancini said:

For me, it's moles.
I've been doing battle with them for 20 years and there's no end it sight.
Rich

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I'd sit out there with a lawn chair, a Winchester and a six pack and go huntin' :laughing: For me it's the ants. I have 4 mounds on my half acre, and the best I can do is re-locate them. They just won't die!!

That would be my neighbor.....

Poor Robert . I hate wasps, they are the one insect I have no qualms about killing. Otherwise greenfly are my enemy, they are so destructive. I have to wonder why these creatures exist as they seem to have no useful function.

oh yes yellow jackets and hornets i dont like at all i get stung i have to take epee-pen

I had to give up on trying to have a vegetable garden because of the rabbits. Even though I put up wire mesh fencing all around my garden, those varmints dug undereath it and got in anyhow!

dose my wife count as a pest :biggrin:

You know, it depends on what is around and that tends to change from season to season. I hate rats, and we've had those when homes are cleaned out. I don't like the skunk odors that permeate. Slugs can be a pain, as can snails, but we can years without seeing a slug and then bam.

That would be the red ants for me. Slugs used to be common too but heavens know where they disappeared to. Robert, yours is a funny one. What does your neighbor do that gets to you that much?

touree said:

That would be the red ants for me. Slugs used to be common too but heavens know where they disappeared to. Robert, yours is a funny one. What does your neighbor do that gets to you that much?

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That would be a long post for another thread in another catagory and probably another website as it has little to do with lawn mowers. I will say this is absolutely the worst neighbor I have ever encountered. I assure you, I am being objective in that assessment.

For me it is Rats and Mice. I live in a rural area surrounded by farms so the rats and mice are very prevalent and they can do some whopping pile of damage. About 10 years ago we had to get an exterminator in there were so many.

Used to be mo;es, but a sonic mole chaser from TSC cured that problem. Now its Armadillos and racoons with the occasional possum thrown in for good measure.

JIM

RobertBrown said:

That would be a long post for another thread in another catagory and probably another website as it has little to do with lawn mowers. I will say this is absolutely the worst neighbor I have ever encountered. I assure you, I am being objective in that assessment.

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Robert; What kind of pup is that you have posted? Except for coloring, my pup looks a lot like that one.

Honey said:

In your opinion what is the most annoying pest in your area? In my area I'd have to say wasps and mice. The mice get into the tiniest little crevices and make such a mess.

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Where I live it's the rats. They live in holes they have dugged in grassy areas. They mess up the jackfruits before we get hold of them. Wrapping the tree with GI sheet solved the problem.

While not really a pest to anything except field mice around my barn, having a almost 5 ft long Grey Rat Snake get caught in my mower deck belts was a little troublesome. My guess is that it had been sleeping on the deck and just didn't get off after I cranked the engine. Good think I didn't see it until after the fact or I would be posting this from the hospital where I'd be recovering from a heart attack. lol
I was mowing the grass and felt a belt come off and thought it must have broken. After I made it to the driveway and parked the mower I noticed a 2 1/2 ft section of snake dancing on the driveway. I found the other half on the deck.

most annoying - tossup between Deer Flies and Gnats

We have several cats-2 that hang out in the front yard and 3 in the back. They take care of any and all rats, mice, and squirrels. Haven't seen a live rodent in many years. Heard a lot of horror stories about rodents crawling up under the hood of a car and nesting/chewing up wiring.

So the worst pest for me are the fire ants. Their nests pop up everywhere and when you eliminate one, another one is sure to appear somewhere in the yard. We have a lot of wasps too, but I spray them every now and then.

I detest any tiny creature that crawls no matter how harmless it might be. I hate cockroaches and specifically mice which kind of show up from nowhere when they want to.

The tent worms here are horrible. In the spring they pick one area and completely defoliate the trees. It's especially bad when it's around a sports field or picnic area, because they drop down onto the seats and tables and bleachers and benches. Nasty.