January 11, 2025 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
The roots on the road. But we've managed to track
him down at very good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
You did track me down, Peter. I have good morning
to you too, and.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Will yeah, I am very well, thank you. Lovely day
in the garden yesterday, which was awesome, so.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Yeah, good yeah, I've not done garden. I've looked at
nature's gardens in Punakaiki and Kotka and the gorge and
place like it, and gosh, we can learn so much,
can't we.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, absolutely, that's the way to go. Hey, yeah, we've
got a fullbad call, so let's let's rip into it.
But I must tell you there is growing excitement in
the house about this visit to Wingspan. I know we've
talked about it for a long time and I'm the
world's slowest traveler, but to buy crikey excitement as building,
isn't it yeah, Monday. Awesome, right, let's get amongst that. Simon,
(01:16):
A very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yes, hi, Hi, Peter and Ruth. I have a question
about insect bites.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Go on.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I've been having bites and they start off just very small,
and then they turn into sort of largish pink circles.
I suspect that they were fleas because I just last
night I found a flea on my skin and killed it.
(01:50):
Would that.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Be your well, to be quite honest, everybody has different
reactions to bites, to be quite honest, and and that
is and I'm not very good at identifying what comes what.
But if you've found a flea on your body and
you've got an reaction from a bite, then you can
(02:12):
quite likely say this is the one that did it.
I don't, to be quite I'm not a doctor, so
I'm not if you're like, okay, to tell you what
to do with it. If you've got any way of
alleviating that sort of stuff.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Yes, so I've been. The pharmacist said, oh, take antihistamine
like tell Fast or something like that. So that's been working.
So also they suggested to use a slee bomb. So
it only seems to be in one in a bedroom
that the proper case.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And you don't have pets. You don't have.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Pets, no, no, I was wondering, how do they get in?
How do they get introduced into the house.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Well, there are there are so many different types of fleas,
if you're like a different different types of fleas.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Some are go of course on dogs and cats, as
cats flee.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
S, as dog fleeces also, but there are also fleas
that live on the birds that might nest in your
ceiling or in your roof, or near the or next
to the house or whatever, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And especially when the nest has fled.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
In other words, when mom and dad and their babies
have gone, there's quite often some fleas still in the nest.
They then are looking for somebody with blood and guess
who that is.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That has to be.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Silent because you're nearby, you know what I mean. So
they could come from all sorts of things. If you
would have that, if your for instance, have that flea
that you're killed, still, somebody, some entomologists nearby might be
able to identify exactly which type of flea it was,
and then you can do a bit of a little
trick of finding out where it came.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
From the cops, you know, right, And when they get
into the house, where do they normally reside? Would it
be in the carpet.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Or anywhere really, anywhere where it's nice and warm, and
anywhere where they find somebody that has some blood, warm
blooded creatures that exhale carbon dioxide and inhale oxygen, because
that's what you do, of course as a person, as
a human, and that's how they find you.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Right. And would there be if I'm getting bites, would
there be a lot of a lot of fleas or
could it just be like one or two that have
got in and.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
In the in the in my scenario of maybe it'd
be bird fleas, it's probably fewer than you think, and
you're just a bit of unlucky. But it will also
then become less and less important because those fleas.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Will not I don't think.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
They may be very happy with your type of blood
because I think they would rather have the blood of
those birds.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
They're hosts, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
So they're not they're not going to be they're not
going to be a big nuisance for a long time.
You've just struck it unlucky that is quite often the case.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
A right, Oh, that's a fantastic help.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Simon, all the very best.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It is.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It is kind of nasty. There's a lot of sea
lice in Auckland at the moment, so people are complaining
about the old sea lice at the moment too. Joe,
good morning to.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
You, running guys. Hi coming into this so called summertime.
Now Corey Blue, so called Corey Blue is and I'm
going to read pot. Basically, I bought it new, obviously,
(05:38):
and I'm just wondering if there's if there's any favor.
I've got the ticket thing, you know, information, but it
seems like a very fussy, fragile fol edge that I'm
just wondering to have it as indoor or an outdoor
or how the top should be that I put the
(06:02):
plant into without losing its.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Can you please please spell that Corey blue, because I'm
not getting I don't know what. That doesn't ring a
bell for me?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Can you please spell that for me?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
C O R?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Why? Yeah, sorry, Dallas the A A L L. Yeah,
and that's porcelain blue. Yeah, And that's about all estensially
and just anyway, fred Gerle plant, I might just keep
(06:37):
it inside as a house plant. I'm not sure or I.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Think yes, you might be right, Yeah, you might be
right to put that and keep that indoors.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Where are you based, guess giusee.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
So thanks for the wedding thing. And I said, look, mum,
and I'm still sorry. One more quick one. I'm still
having a little bit of trouble with that funny grasp
(07:14):
with the little sprung hard sort of waxy ducts, a
sort of seeds at the top, you know, grows and
blah blah blah. I've sprayed and I don't really like
us and spray, but yeah, not with it to dig
(07:34):
it out a real quondrum.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, get rid of it as soon as you can
and dig it out. If that's the way for the
spray doesn't work, there's probably your best way to go, Joe.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
A little bit of extra time in the sunshine gisbin,
where of course it never rains. Oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty is number if you've got a question. Now,
a timber ceiling root with no roof cavity. People are
struggling with the ants that are living there, throwing out
they're dead. We've tried raid, We've tried, no morants other things.
None of them seem to have impacted on a population
(08:08):
that are haffing. It did out probably through the light footings.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yes, there's always a little hole that they think that's
a good place.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
That's where we're going to put a bit.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Like the guy who lives next door to the place
where were at the moment here and in Punakaiki, he
still burns all of the stuff from his guard and
then I go, and I was were about to go,
so I thought maybe I could talk to him about
climate change in some states, But that's another story.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
It's a bit.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
But ants do that because they can actually dump their
dead bodies or the stuff that they've been eating, basically
down low down in a hole into the ground, knowing
that everything.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Will be recycled. And that is exactly what this is about.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Now, if they live in your ceiling, and if you
can get into your ceiling with an aerosol can, it
might be an idea to get some of that safe
work stuff, and if you could chuck that into the
ceiling cavity, you'll find that the ants will get really
really nasty, in fact, so nasty that they'll die and
that'll be the end of it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And that is probably the best way to go.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
About brilliant idea. Thank you very much. My mind is
distracted by your your comment about the answer to tipping
out their waist, and I'm thinking it's it's like the
old medieval castles, you know, if you looked at where
the toilets were, they were just like an abutment and
the pun and you just do your business and drops
down the outside of the castle. I thought you'd like that, right, Christine,
(09:39):
thank you very much for that. That's fabulous. Mary A
very no, actually, Christine, good.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Oh, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
My dear, thank you.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I live in the western Bay of kinchi Essenry and
it's semi tropical here. I've got a problem when I
want some advice with my passion fruit bye. Every year
I had the speak fruit by and what happens? Does
the passion moth come in? Just give us stated. So
(10:10):
I've been trying to look after this year, taking away
all dead meta and spraying of work. Actually, somebody told
me vinegar side of vinegar and water and that sort
of has kicked them at bay. But it's not looking
great and it's got thousands of fruit on it. What
should I do to look after my passion fruit vine.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Well, if it's the passion vine hopper, are you talking
about the fluffy bums that are on there.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Well, there's a little gray moth. It's a fluffy bumb.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, I think so if you're talking about
a moth, it looks like a moth, but it's not
a moth. It's actually a true bug, a sept sucking
they call it. Yeah, yeah, but the lovely sea throws
wings if you like, yes you can.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
See, yeah exactly, yeah, you got it.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
So in that particular place, in that particular space of
their development, they are not that could at causing trouble.
They will have done that when they were a fluffy
bum larvae. Okay, so but here comes to thing. You
are too late by combating fluffy bombs. That should be
(11:20):
done in the springtime, say November October, November, when the
very first eggs hatch, and you've got the tiniest fluffy
bombs sitting in the tops of your plants.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
In the morning, when the wind is.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Still, you get yourself any aerosol can you can find,
fly spray, it doesn't matter. You spray it onto those
things they try to hop away, but because they're too
small and too weak, they actually gather more insecticide by
flying through it or jumping through it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And basically that's the end of that particular group. That
is a really clever trick.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
In the springtime, when you see the very first ones,
keep an eye out on them.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
October November.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Okay, so I can just sprayl with fly spray.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You can.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah, But the point now is that they are so
because these guys are so if you like so quick,
they will avoid most of the spray and it's not
gonna work that well.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So you're really too late with this.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah, but with the fluffy bombs, charges, shift slices,
fray or do something beautiful.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Absolutely, but that's in springtime, right that time, that's the
timing when they're still weak, they are tiny, they don't
know how to jump very well, and they jump through
that whole cloud of the of the spray that you
put in there, and they go oh you can hear
them cough, go oh three, I hate it here.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
That sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Brilliant, brilliant. You take care, see you then bye you
news Red climb past with us. We're going to take
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Speaker 1 (13:00):
Doing other house sorting the garden. Ask Pete for a
hand the resident builder with Peter Wolfcamp and light for
solar your solo journey in twenty twenty five, call oh
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Speaker 2 (13:12):
It be your news Talks. It is with me and
Mary A very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Morning, Pete and Rupe. I just didn't sound route something is.
Yesterday on Francesca's program he took someone talked about stagnant
water and mosquitos, and I wondered, is there anything that
the water could be treated with that would not be
harmful to birds or animals or anything.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Well, sometimes in the old days people would put let's
say a petrol or a diesel or something like that
in it to make it a lot less habitable for
this mosquitolarvae that wriggle up and down. And I'm not
sure if that's the right way to go about it.
But in I'm just going back now to this is
(14:02):
what I was talking about to do with Francisco as well.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
In my old folder that I carry with me all.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
The time into news Dogs atb since nineteen eighty seven,
I have all sorts of old bits and pieces of
little knowledges. And one of the things we did with
the Ministry of Agriculture we try to get rid of
the salt marsh mosquito simply by spraying in the water
material that would actually kill those mosquito larvae. And I
(14:31):
am not sure if that's available for the public or
whether this was something that was usually available to the
government who would literally try to eradicate those introduced creatures.
But there are materials that you can use in if
you like ponds and places like that. Where do you
(14:53):
have your mosquitoes?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
If I may ask, Mary, I'm not sure, But.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
The only place that I can think that this sort
of student is like a bird bath.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Oh, that's an easy way to empty it.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Empty it every two or three days, every No, empty
it every week and putting new water in. That's the
only way to easy. Yeah, And I'm saying a week
because the life cycle of development for a mosquito is
about ten days, so if you do it every seven days,
you break the life cycle just before they become adults.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
Okay, If I put say, like a little solar water
fountain thing in it to aerate it, would that help
prevent them.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
No, I don't think it would treatment. Yeah, yeah, I
was exactly good.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Good, good observation.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Indeed you're more than welcome. Mary.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Good life all the very busy Mary. Take care of Ginny.
Good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Oh good, good morning. Peter Rude, and I want to
ask you Rude about the Australian paper. Was Yeah, I
found one. I found the nest.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Well.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
I saw the nest first, a little round globe, and
the wasp was crawling around over it. And I was
doing some clearing at the time of sils and things,
and I looked at it and I thought, now, should
I destroy this this creek ture? I didn't know what
it was at that point, and I thought, oh, I
think I'll just leave it. So I went and looked
(16:32):
it up in the book and discovered that that's what
it was. Now should I just leave it alone? Do
I need to get rid of it? I mean normal?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Yeah, yeah, but there are no normal wasps in New Zealand,
to be quite honest, because.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Well, yeah, worse than that, not what do you call
a normal wasp?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
We can talk about the language of that, but I
don't want to because most of those wasps that or
all of the wasps that are real buggers introduced wasps.
They don't be long and they have an impact on
our ecosystem.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And I'll give you that. If you talk about.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
The Australian paper wash, which is the orangey red reddish
one rather than the black with yellow stripes one. They
are the ones that would, for instance, go and find
the monarch butterfly caterpillars, chop them up into bits and
pieces that are carrriable and take them back to the
nest to feed their kids with that sort of stuff.
(17:32):
And they do that to all our native moths and
butterfly caterpillars.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
If you right, So there you go. No, they have
no sense of humor.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Right Well, I yeah, Well in that case, I'll hopefully
it's still there. If I can destroy it, well.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
The best way to do it is with two people
in the middle of the night. And if you, for instance,
get your partner to hold the torch, you will get
a sharp a pair of scissors, a plastic bag and
while well he's basically lighting up the environment, you you.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Snip off the.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Nest and drop it in the plastic bag and walk
away with it and put the plastic bag in the
freezer overnight and that kills them quite nicely, but it'll miss.
For instance, the wasps will fly to the person that
holds the torch.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So you're you're safe.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Short straw, all the best. I did notice on the
news yesterday or the day before a wasp nest and
a rural property in South Auckland that was about two
meters tall and about a meter wide. They reckon was
home to about a quarter of a million wasps.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Yeah that is that is not unexpected.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I saw one of those. I've seen it. Yeah, no,
that's common.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Hey, enjoy the coast and we'll talk next Sunday. Love
your work, take care of yours, take care all the best,
right he oh. I look forward to being back with
you again next Sunday. Have a great week.
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
The roots on the road. But we've managed to track
him down at very good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
You did track me down, Peter. I have good morning
to you too, and.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Will yeah, I am very well, thank you. Lovely day
in the garden yesterday, which was awesome, so.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Yeah, good yeah, I've not done garden. I've looked at
nature's gardens in Punakaiki and Kotka and the gorge and
place like it, and gosh, we can learn so much,
can't we.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah, absolutely, that's the way to go. Hey, yeah, we've
got a fullbad call, so let's let's rip into it.
But I must tell you there is growing excitement in
the house about this visit to Wingspan. I know we've
talked about it for a long time and I'm the
world's slowest traveler, but to buy crikey excitement as building,
isn't it yeah, Monday. Awesome, right, let's get amongst that. Simon,
(01:16):
A very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
Yes, hi, Hi, Peter and Ruth. I have a question
about insect bites.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Go on.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
I've been having bites and they start off just very small,
and then they turn into sort of largish pink circles.
I suspect that they were fleas because I just last
night I found a flea on my skin and killed it.
(01:50):
Would that.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Be your well, to be quite honest, everybody has different
reactions to bites, to be quite honest, and and that
is and I'm not very good at identifying what comes what.
But if you've found a flea on your body and
you've got an reaction from a bite, then you can
(02:12):
quite likely say this is the one that did it.
I don't, to be quite I'm not a doctor, so
I'm not if you're like, okay, to tell you what
to do with it. If you've got any way of
alleviating that sort of stuff.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Yes, so I've been. The pharmacist said, oh, take antihistamine
like tell Fast or something like that. So that's been working.
So also they suggested to use a slee bomb. So
it only seems to be in one in a bedroom
that the proper case.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
And you don't have pets. You don't have.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Pets, no, no, I was wondering, how do they get in?
How do they get introduced into the house.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Well, there are there are so many different types of fleas,
if you're like a different different types of fleas.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Some are go of course on dogs and cats, as
cats flee.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
S, as dog fleeces also, but there are also fleas
that live on the birds that might nest in your
ceiling or in your roof, or near the or next
to the house or whatever, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
And especially when the nest has fled.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
In other words, when mom and dad and their babies
have gone, there's quite often some fleas still in the nest.
They then are looking for somebody with blood and guess
who that is.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That has to be.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Silent because you're nearby, you know what I mean. So
they could come from all sorts of things. If you
would have that, if your for instance, have that flea
that you're killed, still, somebody, some entomologists nearby might be
able to identify exactly which type of flea it was,
and then you can do a bit of a little
trick of finding out where it came.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
From the cops, you know, right, And when they get
into the house, where do they normally reside? Would it
be in the carpet.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Or anywhere really, anywhere where it's nice and warm, and
anywhere where they find somebody that has some blood, warm
blooded creatures that exhale carbon dioxide and inhale oxygen, because
that's what you do, of course as a person, as
a human, and that's how they find you.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Right. And would there be if I'm getting bites, would
there be a lot of a lot of fleas or
could it just be like one or two that have
got in and.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
In the in the in my scenario of maybe it'd
be bird fleas, it's probably fewer than you think, and
you're just a bit of unlucky. But it will also
then become less and less important because those fleas.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Will not I don't think.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
They may be very happy with your type of blood
because I think they would rather have the blood of
those birds.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
They're hosts, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
So they're not they're not going to be they're not
going to be a big nuisance for a long time.
You've just struck it unlucky that is quite often the case.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
A right, Oh, that's a fantastic help.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Simon, all the very best.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
It is.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
It is kind of nasty. There's a lot of sea
lice in Auckland at the moment, so people are complaining
about the old sea lice at the moment too. Joe,
good morning to.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
You, running guys. Hi coming into this so called summertime.
Now Corey Blue, so called Corey Blue is and I'm
going to read pot. Basically, I bought it new, obviously,
(05:38):
and I'm just wondering if there's if there's any favor.
I've got the ticket thing, you know, information, but it
seems like a very fussy, fragile fol edge that I'm
just wondering to have it as indoor or an outdoor
or how the top should be that I put the
(06:02):
plant into without losing its.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Can you please please spell that Corey blue, because I'm
not getting I don't know what. That doesn't ring a
bell for me?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Can you please spell that for me?
Speaker 4 (06:14):
C O R?
Speaker 6 (06:16):
Why? Yeah, sorry, Dallas the A A L L. Yeah,
and that's porcelain blue. Yeah, And that's about all estensially
and just anyway, fred Gerle plant, I might just keep
(06:37):
it inside as a house plant. I'm not sure or I.
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Think yes, you might be right, Yeah, you might be
right to put that and keep that indoors.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Where are you based, guess giusee.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
So thanks for the wedding thing. And I said, look, mum,
and I'm still sorry. One more quick one. I'm still
having a little bit of trouble with that funny grasp
(07:14):
with the little sprung hard sort of waxy ducts, a
sort of seeds at the top, you know, grows and
blah blah blah. I've sprayed and I don't really like
us and spray, but yeah, not with it to dig
(07:34):
it out a real quondrum.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yeah, get rid of it as soon as you can
and dig it out. If that's the way for the
spray doesn't work, there's probably your best way to go, Joe.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
A little bit of extra time in the sunshine gisbin,
where of course it never rains. Oh eight hundred eighty
ten eighty is number if you've got a question. Now,
a timber ceiling root with no roof cavity. People are
struggling with the ants that are living there, throwing out
they're dead. We've tried raid, We've tried, no morants other things.
None of them seem to have impacted on a population
(08:08):
that are haffing. It did out probably through the light footings.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Yes, there's always a little hole that they think that's
a good place.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
That's where we're going to put a bit.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Like the guy who lives next door to the place
where were at the moment here and in Punakaiki, he
still burns all of the stuff from his guard and
then I go, and I was were about to go,
so I thought maybe I could talk to him about
climate change in some states, But that's another story.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
It's a bit.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
But ants do that because they can actually dump their
dead bodies or the stuff that they've been eating, basically
down low down in a hole into the ground, knowing
that everything.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Will be recycled. And that is exactly what this is about.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Now, if they live in your ceiling, and if you
can get into your ceiling with an aerosol can, it
might be an idea to get some of that safe
work stuff, and if you could chuck that into the
ceiling cavity, you'll find that the ants will get really
really nasty, in fact, so nasty that they'll die and
that'll be the end of it.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And that is probably the best way to go.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
About brilliant idea. Thank you very much. My mind is
distracted by your your comment about the answer to tipping
out their waist, and I'm thinking it's it's like the
old medieval castles, you know, if you looked at where
the toilets were, they were just like an abutment and
the pun and you just do your business and drops
down the outside of the castle. I thought you'd like that, right, Christine,
(09:39):
thank you very much for that. That's fabulous. Mary A
very no, actually, Christine, good.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Oh, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
My dear, thank you.
Speaker 7 (09:49):
I live in the western Bay of kinchi Essenry and
it's semi tropical here. I've got a problem when I
want some advice with my passion fruit bye. Every year
I had the speak fruit by and what happens? Does
the passion moth come in? Just give us stated. So
(10:10):
I've been trying to look after this year, taking away
all dead meta and spraying of work. Actually, somebody told
me vinegar side of vinegar and water and that sort
of has kicked them at bay. But it's not looking
great and it's got thousands of fruit on it. What
should I do to look after my passion fruit vine.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Well, if it's the passion vine hopper, are you talking
about the fluffy bums that are on there.
Speaker 7 (10:35):
Well, there's a little gray moth. It's a fluffy bumb.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, I think so if you're talking about
a moth, it looks like a moth, but it's not
a moth. It's actually a true bug, a sept sucking
they call it. Yeah, yeah, but the lovely sea throws
wings if you like, yes you can.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
See, yeah exactly, yeah, you got it.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
So in that particular place, in that particular space of
their development, they are not that could at causing trouble.
They will have done that when they were a fluffy
bum larvae. Okay, so but here comes to thing. You
are too late by combating fluffy bombs. That should be
(11:20):
done in the springtime, say November October, November, when the
very first eggs hatch, and you've got the tiniest fluffy
bombs sitting in the tops of your plants.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
In the morning, when the wind is.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
Still, you get yourself any aerosol can you can find,
fly spray, it doesn't matter. You spray it onto those
things they try to hop away, but because they're too
small and too weak, they actually gather more insecticide by
flying through it or jumping through it.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
And basically that's the end of that particular group. That
is a really clever trick.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
In the springtime, when you see the very first ones,
keep an eye out on them.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
October November.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
Okay, so I can just sprayl with fly spray.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You can.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yeah, But the point now is that they are so
because these guys are so if you like so quick,
they will avoid most of the spray and it's not
gonna work that well.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
So you're really too late with this.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
Yeah, yeah, but with the fluffy bombs, charges, shift slices,
fray or do something beautiful.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Absolutely, but that's in springtime, right that time, that's the
timing when they're still weak, they are tiny, they don't
know how to jump very well, and they jump through
that whole cloud of the of the spray that you
put in there, and they go oh you can hear
them cough, go oh three, I hate it here.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
That sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Brilliant, brilliant. You take care, see you then bye you
news Red climb past with us. We're going to take
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Speaker 1 (13:00):
Doing other house sorting the garden. Ask Pete for a
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Speaker 2 (13:12):
It be your news Talks. It is with me and
Mary A very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (13:19):
Morning, Pete and Rupe. I just didn't sound route something is.
Yesterday on Francesca's program he took someone talked about stagnant
water and mosquitos, and I wondered, is there anything that
the water could be treated with that would not be
harmful to birds or animals or anything.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Well, sometimes in the old days people would put let's
say a petrol or a diesel or something like that
in it to make it a lot less habitable for
this mosquitolarvae that wriggle up and down. And I'm not
sure if that's the right way to go about it.
But in I'm just going back now to this is
(14:02):
what I was talking about to do with Francisco as well.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
In my old folder that I carry with me all.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
The time into news Dogs atb since nineteen eighty seven,
I have all sorts of old bits and pieces of
little knowledges. And one of the things we did with
the Ministry of Agriculture we try to get rid of
the salt marsh mosquito simply by spraying in the water
material that would actually kill those mosquito larvae. And I
(14:31):
am not sure if that's available for the public or
whether this was something that was usually available to the
government who would literally try to eradicate those introduced creatures.
But there are materials that you can use in if
you like ponds and places like that. Where do you
(14:53):
have your mosquitoes?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
If I may ask, Mary, I'm not sure, But.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
The only place that I can think that this sort
of student is like a bird bath.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Oh, that's an easy way to empty it.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Empty it every two or three days, every No, empty
it every week and putting new water in. That's the
only way to easy. Yeah, And I'm saying a week
because the life cycle of development for a mosquito is
about ten days, so if you do it every seven days,
you break the life cycle just before they become adults.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
Okay, If I put say, like a little solar water
fountain thing in it to aerate it, would that help
prevent them.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
No, I don't think it would treatment. Yeah, yeah, I
was exactly good.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Good, good observation.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Indeed you're more than welcome. Mary.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Good life all the very busy Mary. Take care of Ginny.
Good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Oh good, good morning. Peter Rude, and I want to
ask you Rude about the Australian paper. Was Yeah, I
found one. I found the nest.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Well.
Speaker 9 (16:10):
I saw the nest first, a little round globe, and
the wasp was crawling around over it. And I was
doing some clearing at the time of sils and things,
and I looked at it and I thought, now, should
I destroy this this creek ture? I didn't know what
it was at that point, and I thought, oh, I
think I'll just leave it. So I went and looked
(16:32):
it up in the book and discovered that that's what
it was. Now should I just leave it alone? Do
I need to get rid of it? I mean normal?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Yeah, yeah, but there are no normal wasps in New Zealand,
to be quite honest, because.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Well, yeah, worse than that, not what do you call
a normal wasp?
Speaker 4 (16:57):
We can talk about the language of that, but I
don't want to because most of those wasps that or
all of the wasps that are real buggers introduced wasps.
They don't be long and they have an impact on
our ecosystem.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
And I'll give you that. If you talk about.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
The Australian paper wash, which is the orangey red reddish
one rather than the black with yellow stripes one. They
are the ones that would, for instance, go and find
the monarch butterfly caterpillars, chop them up into bits and
pieces that are carrriable and take them back to the
nest to feed their kids with that sort of stuff.
(17:32):
And they do that to all our native moths and
butterfly caterpillars.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
If you right, So there you go. No, they have
no sense of humor.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Right Well, I yeah, Well in that case, I'll hopefully
it's still there. If I can destroy it, well.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
The best way to do it is with two people
in the middle of the night. And if you, for instance,
get your partner to hold the torch, you will get
a sharp a pair of scissors, a plastic bag and
while well he's basically lighting up the environment, you you.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Snip off the.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Nest and drop it in the plastic bag and walk
away with it and put the plastic bag in the
freezer overnight and that kills them quite nicely, but it'll miss.
For instance, the wasps will fly to the person that
holds the torch.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
So you're you're safe.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Short straw, all the best. I did notice on the
news yesterday or the day before a wasp nest and
a rural property in South Auckland that was about two
meters tall and about a meter wide. They reckon was
home to about a quarter of a million wasps.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Yeah that is that is not unexpected.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
I saw one of those. I've seen it. Yeah, no,
that's common.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Hey, enjoy the coast and we'll talk next Sunday. Love
your work, take care of yours, take care all the best,
right he oh. I look forward to being back with
you again next Sunday. Have a great week.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
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