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If you put the tape on sticky side out they can't/won't climb up. Wrap it tight and work from the higher narrower part of the trunk down. Lap each wrap a little less than an inch over the previous wrap. I've used this for other pests successfully.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
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Carol -
Robert said "I wonder if you use duct tape if you will wake up to a ring of coquis stuck to each tree? Once it was covered would they walk over the others to go higher in the tree?"
The pic of that got us laughing! It is the best medicine! (not saying that this isnt a good idea!)
-Cat
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Sticky side facing out. They climb over the tape and get stuck. Not sure about the duct tape but I'm sure it would work too.
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We get the baking soda at CostCo. They're not huge bags, we don't use large amounts.
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pretend they're loud crickets and ignore.
When I first moved here they bugged the___out of me.
but after living with them for a few years...Not anymore.
One Thing I can always be sure of is that things will never go as expected.
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I was told that if I just ignore them they will eventually move into the house. It was true but I've now pushed them back to the boundaries of the property.
Anybody try anything else? I was considering sonar waves of various frequencies.
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They don't bother me any more, and they haven't moved into the house so far. They do sometimes hitch rides on the car, though. I guess they are either visiting friends or else looking for new places to colonize.
I thought about doing a remake of "Dr. Strangelove" titled "Dr. Strangefrog, Or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Coqui." In the climactic scene Slim Pickens is hurtling down on Pahoa astride a giant H-bomb shaped cannister of citric acid yelling, "YeeeeeeeeeHaaaaawwwwww . . . "
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taropatch, I'm on your wavelength! I was intrigued when I read that a certain frequency would cause the human eye to explode. Not sure if it's true but I'd like to know if something similar would work on coquis - to kill them instantly, of course.
I also looked into night vision glasses to locate them until I remembered that they're cold-blooded. Still not sure how they manage to be nocturnal - they get all their energy from bugs I guess.
We have the technology, but which one?
I wish I could just ignore them, but they're just too loud, especially in the trees near the house. One way to do it is clear your lot of vegetation but I'm not going to let an invasive frog tell me what to do!
They are in the trees?
The most important step in fighting the coqui is to clear the ground of dead leaves and branches beneath the tree. That's where they hang out during the day. If there is a moist nook in the tree (ie. trash filled joint where the branch meets the main trunk) that could be bad news as that might be their daytime hangout. If there is thick ground cover or an anthurium patch beneath the tree that you wish to keep, then that could be a dilemma.
