10-03-2007, 04:12 AM
Thanks to all for your thoughts and feedback on this subject.
@Kathy:
My land is virgin ohia lehua on rough A`a lava. The house is in the middle and just an access red cinder lane to it. I built at this location because of the beautiful raw forest and the absolute quiet it has provided for years. So for me to create a cleared/deforested mote around the house would not only cost a lot of time or money, it would also take away the very thing I appreciate about the home: the ohia and their lehua blossoms, all the birds that gather, feed and nest there. The land around the house is very uneven with mounds of rough lava. It would take a bulldozer to make a cleared buffer zone or some very serious hand clearing; yes, a possibility.
@AkoniV:
Yeah I looked into the trapping experiments and it seems some of the PVC pipe traps have very limited success of 20 to 26%. And that is if you have lots of the traps and can actively clean the traps out regularly. Most of my land is really rough lava with lots of ups and downs, hard to walk through. I had thought of a making a trail around the perimeter of the property for this purpose, but that task is very daunting.
Then there is the method involving a captured male coqui in the plastic container with baking soda that kills (supposedly) the coqui as they look for the male. Both methods would likely work fairly well on a small, easily accessible lot.
I have a new neighbor that entirely cleared their five acres after purchase. They put their home in the center. I was appalled at seeing the forest cleared, it was home to two pair of pueo and countless other nesting birds… Now I kinda envy the fact they can easily keep the coqui from entering their property…
@Andrew:
Thanks for your test results.
@Brad W:
Thanks for that citric tank and pump option. As I mention above, I have no roads or paths to most of my land here, nor into my neighbors adjoining properties, so even if I had your system sitting in my driveway, I could not use it for more than the access lane and around the house. I can’t afford to make paths or roads even if I wanted to try that method.
If it comes down to a last stand, I will likely adopt something like your system and just periodically knock the coqui back as they approach my house.
I was stoked to tackle the coqui with the leaf-blower/baking soda method, even if it meant a monthly trek across rough land and doing my neighbors property too. There are still not many coqui in this area; we had a chance to keep them out, or at least hold them on our perimeters.
… I was really discouraged by my Blacksands test, as detailed in my original post.
@Kathy:
My land is virgin ohia lehua on rough A`a lava. The house is in the middle and just an access red cinder lane to it. I built at this location because of the beautiful raw forest and the absolute quiet it has provided for years. So for me to create a cleared/deforested mote around the house would not only cost a lot of time or money, it would also take away the very thing I appreciate about the home: the ohia and their lehua blossoms, all the birds that gather, feed and nest there. The land around the house is very uneven with mounds of rough lava. It would take a bulldozer to make a cleared buffer zone or some very serious hand clearing; yes, a possibility.
@AkoniV:
Yeah I looked into the trapping experiments and it seems some of the PVC pipe traps have very limited success of 20 to 26%. And that is if you have lots of the traps and can actively clean the traps out regularly. Most of my land is really rough lava with lots of ups and downs, hard to walk through. I had thought of a making a trail around the perimeter of the property for this purpose, but that task is very daunting.
Then there is the method involving a captured male coqui in the plastic container with baking soda that kills (supposedly) the coqui as they look for the male. Both methods would likely work fairly well on a small, easily accessible lot.
I have a new neighbor that entirely cleared their five acres after purchase. They put their home in the center. I was appalled at seeing the forest cleared, it was home to two pair of pueo and countless other nesting birds… Now I kinda envy the fact they can easily keep the coqui from entering their property…
@Andrew:
Thanks for your test results.
@Brad W:
Thanks for that citric tank and pump option. As I mention above, I have no roads or paths to most of my land here, nor into my neighbors adjoining properties, so even if I had your system sitting in my driveway, I could not use it for more than the access lane and around the house. I can’t afford to make paths or roads even if I wanted to try that method.
If it comes down to a last stand, I will likely adopt something like your system and just periodically knock the coqui back as they approach my house.
I was stoked to tackle the coqui with the leaf-blower/baking soda method, even if it meant a monthly trek across rough land and doing my neighbors property too. There are still not many coqui in this area; we had a chance to keep them out, or at least hold them on our perimeters.
… I was really discouraged by my Blacksands test, as detailed in my original post.