08-09-2012, 08:27 PM
We were shown how to do this by Mark the Coqui Killer. I haven't done it myself for a while
so I may be a bit rough on the details. Basically you get a gas-powered leaf blower (e.g. Ryobi)
and you jimmy open the intake grill. Shooting from the hip, you use a yoghurt pot full of baking soda
to slowly feed powder into the intake, which then shoots out of the nozzle. Mine has a throttle
so you can control the power. It's best to do this when it hasn't rained for a while and you
don't expect it to rain for the next day or so (difficult in Puna, I know).
We just spread all over the areas where frogs are known to hang out. The more frogs you have,
the better it works. It can get expensive, so make sure you buy in bulk from Costco.
Sure, frogs hang out in overgrown lots but piles of palm fronds (which people dump in
vacant lots all over Puna) are an ideal incubator for frogs. I see literally hundreds of them
when I clean out piles of old palm fronds near my property. I can usually kill more in a day
than I do all week at night. If the government ever decides that they want to try to do something
against coquis again then the best thing they can do is clean up all of the dumped vegetation.
If you're around at Christmas then maybe I should come over and check out your coqui situation.
I know where they like to hang out.
so I may be a bit rough on the details. Basically you get a gas-powered leaf blower (e.g. Ryobi)
and you jimmy open the intake grill. Shooting from the hip, you use a yoghurt pot full of baking soda
to slowly feed powder into the intake, which then shoots out of the nozzle. Mine has a throttle
so you can control the power. It's best to do this when it hasn't rained for a while and you
don't expect it to rain for the next day or so (difficult in Puna, I know).
We just spread all over the areas where frogs are known to hang out. The more frogs you have,
the better it works. It can get expensive, so make sure you buy in bulk from Costco.
Sure, frogs hang out in overgrown lots but piles of palm fronds (which people dump in
vacant lots all over Puna) are an ideal incubator for frogs. I see literally hundreds of them
when I clean out piles of old palm fronds near my property. I can usually kill more in a day
than I do all week at night. If the government ever decides that they want to try to do something
against coquis again then the best thing they can do is clean up all of the dumped vegetation.
If you're around at Christmas then maybe I should come over and check out your coqui situation.
I know where they like to hang out.