GaryGaulin
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| Quote (NoName @ Jan. 15 2015,19:22) | Folk wisdom suggests planting mint around your building(s).
Field mice are claimed to find it offensive, |
I just checked again and we for sure have a common Western Massachusetts deer mouse, not field mouse:
Planting mint around the house would just make lawn mowing harder and add other house chores for something that's certainly not going to work in the middle of winter when the dried out half decomposed mint plants are frozen in under the icy snow.
But I now think I know why this winter there have been almost no spiders and centipedes crawling around the lab/basement, where the warmth of a space heater normally attracts them towards me.
Now I have to wonder about their possibly containing hantavirus:
http://www.cdc.gov/hantavi....rodents
It would be nice to have an inexpensive spray or something to put in their water that makes those who are infected turn a certain color, or rids them of diseases like that. Anyone working on it?
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The theory of intelligent design holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
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