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I posted it on the other coqui forum but thought I should put it here as well. I pick-up the sprayer (a.k.a. the red beast) on the 19th of April and will have it for a week. I'm willing to help anybody else out if you will just help out w/ the cost of the chemicals. I hope to procure funds to cover the cost of a Tyvec suit, new respirator cartidges and maybe a bag or two of hydrated lime. I HATE HATE HATE!!! having to resort to this because though I'm not exactly a tree hugger I don't particularly like the idea of chemicals on/in/under/or over the ground. Just don't think that's what the good lord intended. But I guess I hate insomnia more so the chemicals win and the frogs hopefully lose. Fortunately after a few good rains the white stuff is all gone and actually (I ain't making this up either) look greener, if you can believe that! Hope you all have a wonderful week!!!! Aloha pj aka Pam2 formerly Pam3 but Mella is now Pam3 or Mella. I swear ALL I've had to drink today is coffee and tea! G-night
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What do you do about the ones way up in the trees? Our lot in HPP is bordered on two sides by dense jungle with large palms and albezia trees, and it seems as though alot of the chirping is coming from high in the trees. Maybe train some monkeys to hunt coqui at night?? Now that sounds like a profitable buisness....hmmmm
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Mark
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I've been told to spray up in the trees (pre-plan carefully so you don't wind-up with the stuff dripping in your hair) if spraying after dark. In the daylight hours hit the base of the trees and I stick the wand deep into thick foliage and just saturate it! Go to one of the meetings and perhaps you can learn more, I intend to. Good luck! pj
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It seems like the Coqui have won.
I am a light sleeper, and I don't like chemicals and pesticides, and I don't like killing small creatures. So, I guess I can't move to Hawaii after all, bummer.
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I went out with my little spot light last night to see if I could make a positive ID on some of these noisy little critters. I could hear 'em, but I didn't see a single one. So either they are smaller than I thought, or very camoflaged, or probably both. All of the chriping seemed to be coming from no lower than about 8-10 feet up in the trees, does anyone know where these guys like to perch(i.e. on branches or leaf)? I imagine if they are leaf dwellers, they could be very hard to spot.
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Mark
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Has anyone tried the hot water technique, I hear it only has to be 116 degrees and it doesn't kill many of the other things that lime does?
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Aloha,
Any new ways to kill coquis would be good, but keeping the water hot while applying it to frogs in trees seems a bit daunting.
The frogs don't go that high up in the trees and they come down each night. The best way to get them is to apply the caffiene/lime/hotwater/bleach/hard objects directly on the frog and not just a general foliar spray. We've had folks spray their fields and trees with no result, it is the FROGS that have to be sprayed.
It is pretty difficult to locate the frogs, too, even though you can hear them. The sound echoes and makes it hard to exactly locate them. We've killed hundreds of them and I still haven't seen one. I have heard though, that they are growing to much larger sizes than they do in their native Puerto Rico.
For those of you in areas that aren't entirely infested yet, kill them as soon as you hear ONE. It is much much easier to get rid of one than hundreds.
Has anyone had any luck with chickens, guniea hens, jackson chameleons or any other frog eating creature? Seems we need to get more than just humans eradicating these frogs.
A hui hou,
Cathy
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We have wild chickens on our property, and I assume that they would eat any that they could get their beaks on, but I don't think they get up into the trees, so I'm thinking that they will not solve our problem.
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Just wondering if Rats would eat the frogs?
They are both out at night so maybe? I have seen a few during the daytime hiding under an old tarp or piece of wood, They are incredibly fast and got away before I could catch them. As I type this at 8:45 p.m. I can hear about a dozen of them calling in the lots on either side of us numbers have doubled in 3 months. Not too disturbing at this point kinda like hearing crickets.
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I was reading about these little darlins in their native home of Puerto Rico and it is the rats and snakes that dine on them it is also said that the rats in Hawaii should be consuming them as well. Also the Hoary Bat is eating those up in the trees.
As far as hot water goes if anyone has seen or used a hot water pressure washer (also known as a steam cleaner) the temperature and the pressure are both adjustable and they can spray distances of twenty feet no problem with varing spray patterns they do however require electricity and diesel fuel to operate. The presure hoses can be quite long they used to be 75 feet in the truck shops. I suppose they also can spray cold water as well and can mix a solution with the water as well so you could spray cold water lime as well as hot water and anything else for that matter. Just a thought for some of you home based Entrepreneurs out there..
HADave
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