Thread: Workshop Pests

When you said pests I thought you mighta meant other woodies coming for a stickybeak. :eek:

Originally Posted by echnidna

When you said pests I thought you mighta meant other woodies coming for a stickybeak. :eek:

I know the sort Bob!!

Bloody harder to get rid of!!

Hi Major,
Will it work on termites?!
Cheers,

I quite like Geckos. Not that we get too many in Sydney

Still, I can see your problem with the alarm.

Shame really that you can't have both.

Originally Posted by Andy Mac

Hi Major,
Will it work on termites?!
Cheers,

Andy,

If it works with ants I can't see why it wouldn't work with termites :confused:

Will it get rid of young birds from roof cavities?
Is it audible to Humans/ dogs?
Regards Sandman. :confused:

One long forgotten trick is to cover each detection zone with two detectors seperated by a significant distance, such that they both have to trigger to alarm.
This method is very effective in discriminating against small pests such as insects, rodents and even possums.

you need to site the detectors carefully, and of course use good pulse count detectors.
I did this in a mates very large rural shed and he gets zero false alarms and solid coverage.

gecos are great they eat all sorts of insects.

cheers

Majorpanic
Will it keep the birds out
buggers are nesting every where in my shed.

Colonel

I have a similar problem in the house. A monster huntsman spider (we call Boris) crawling over the alarm sensor. It looks like Boris (Borisonova) has bred.

Might I ask you to again report on this device in another few weeks.

I can't help my scepticism. All reports on other electronic repellants have shown they are frauds, ie anti mozzies, rats/mice etc.

Maybe your Gecko left home for other reasons?

Hmmm... I wonder if hooking up a school bell in my shop will keep frighten my shop pests away?

I have replaced the detectors under my house with "dual action" (or some thing) detectors. Basicly they work as a standard passive infra red detector until they are triggered, then they use active microwave to look for movement.

In my setup they then need to be triggered twice before they will activate the alarm.
With this setup it is very rare to get a false alarm. However they still capture movement better than the standard PIR used in the rest of the house. These type of detectors cost about four times as much as a standard PIR, but false alarms are realy uncool.

Can't remember ever seeing Geckos untill about 10 years ago, now they're everywhere. Where did they come from?

[QUOTE=Bodgy]Colonel

I have a similar problem in the house. A monster huntsman spider (we call Boris) crawling over the alarm sensor. It looks like Boris (Borisonova) has bred.
QUOTE]

Bodgy, cover the detector with a bit of plastic or the like (i.e. bottom of a softdrink bottle), then give the surounding area good coating with a surface spray.
I have to do this every 6 months or we get false alarms from spiders. Also do it before we go away for any period of time.

Knuckles

Great idea. I assume it repels the spiders, not actually killing them?

Quite like Boris, he's got character.