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Glue Board "Tunnel" Catches Insects
Editor's note: An anonymous reader sent us the following note:
My office is in an outbuilding that's built on a concrete slab. Being low to the ground, I get a lot of crickets and bugs.
I had heard that commercial glue boards would help, but how do you get such creatures to move onto them?
I figured
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Glue Board "Tunnel" Catches Insects MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Pest Animals 31-1-40 Editor's note: An anonymous reader sent us the following note:
My office is in an outbuilding that's built on a concrete slab. Being low to the ground, I get a lot of crickets and bugs.
I had heard that commercial glue boards would help, but how do you get such creatures to move onto them?
I figured these pests would have to use the doorway for moving about. But doorways are too wide. Then I hit on the idea of building a threshold with a controlled passageway, which would require that pests use it when going from room to room.
I started with a 1-in. thick wooden board, and built it up at both ends with shorter pieces of 1-in. boards, spacing the pieces out just wide enough to make a tunnel where I could insert a Catchmaster glue board. It really catches crickets and other bugs. It'll even catch snakes, mice, and other pests.
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