Next Sunday Is Mighty Mole Trappers Night 2012
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I can already tell you that if  mole trapping is your thing then this Next Sunday Night is your night. I have a few surprise guests so don’t even miss a minute of next weeks podcast Sunday Feb 26, 2012 8 PM EST Podcast.

 

I have a few confirmations from Alan Huot of  NoMol Mole Trap.

NOMOL Mole Trap http://www.trappinmoles.com/

They are very easy to set, and completely safe as the set trap sits entirely within the moles tunnel.




and  Steve Albano of traplineproducts.com

and  Jordan Budenski and his new upgrade for the Victor Out Of Sites

FULLY MODIFIED, NEW OOS TRAPS COST- $17.50 PER TRAP TRAPS ARE OUT OF THE BOX AND WILL ARRIVE READY TO GO IN THE GROUND

Elite Mole Upgrade http://www.trappinmoles.com/

NOW OFFERING COMPLETE STAINLESS STEEL UPGRADE KITS FOR THE OOS THAT WILL VIRTUALLY STOP TRAP MAINTENANCE AND INCREASE CAPTURES WITH A MORE CONSISTENT  TRAP PAN TENSION.

FULLY MODIFIED, NEW OOS TRAPS COST- $17.50 PER TRAP

MODIFICATION KIT - $8.00 PER KIT

TRAPS ARE OUT OF THE BOX AND WILL ARRIVE READY TO GO IN THE GROUND

Why Live Honey Bee Removal ? Podcast About Honey Bees and Our Environment
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David McCleod aka warrior and his guests will be joining him tonight. David is gonna speak a lot about what is going on with the environment and the plight of the bees.  Click Here and Listen  to a short three minute discussion between David Vinke of Bellingham Washington and Sunday nights host David McLeod , Georgia Wildlife Services of Atlanta Georgia  .

Click Here To Listen To The Recorded Podcast




Podcast | Beaver Trapping from A Business Perspective
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Update: Listen To This Podcast  – Click Here

Th official podcast lasted nearly 2.5 hours and then we went into a post show and went another 1.5 hours (not recorded). Ron Jones the host came in late due to service truck problems at the end of the day so a non beaver trapper started the show.Robb started the show and doing a bio on Don LaFountain which grew into 2 1/2 hour discussions with Bob Noonan, of Main and editor of Trapper’s Post  Magazine,  Mike Page of NH and FL, David Vinke of Washington, Kirk Dekalb Georgia, David McLeod Georgia, Carlton Tripp  of ME, even Buzzard stopped in.


I got a call last Thursday from my good friend and buddy and fellow trapper Ron Jones of  South New Jersey.  Ron is a veteran podcaster with The Wildlife Pro Network and announced that he and veteran beaver trapper Don La Fountain have agreed on doing a beaver trapping podcast for WpN . Visit Don’s web site.

If you have never heard any of Ron’s podcasts before this will be his 24th Podcast with us . You can listen to a collection of all of  Jonesies podcasts here.

 

This will be our first Thursday podcast of the 2012 Podcast Season !!



I know of Don LaFountain and he was an early registrant on The Wildlife Pro Network but have never had the pleasure to have a discussion with Don and personally looking forward to this Thursday Nights Podcast.

Ron and Don plan on talking about the business side of running a commercial beaver management company like Don’s company. Integrated Wildlife Control offers comprehensive beaver control services. With over 20  years [1992] of experience we are able to offer expert assessment and education regarding beaver conflicts as well as a variety of options for immediate and, more importantly, long-term resolution. We specialize in full management plans for beaver conflicts, offering trapping and habitat modification with all necessary permitting. Culvert protective fences and pond-leveling pipes are often cost-effective and long-term solutions to beaver-related flooding.

 

Don and Ron will be joined by Bob Noonan, former WCT Magazine Editor and veteran Beaver Trapper in Maine, Beaver Trapper  Beaver Man Kirk Dekalb of Moultrie Ga, Trapper  Mike Page of New Hampshire now Florida,  and the promise of more beaver trapper veteran guests.

Poorman’s Marketing Guide To The Internet 2012
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Listen and download. 45 minutes discussing using, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube for marketing  just like in 2009, 2010, 2011 and again  2012.Our Next Scheduled Podcast

 

Hosted by: Robb Russell
Title: Poorman’s Marketing Guide To The Internet 2012 
Time: 02/12/2012 08:00 PM ESTEpisode Notes: I spent about 45 minutes discussing that if you have not began using, Facebook, Twitter and Youtube for marketing then you really need to start just like I said in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

I discussed the importance of optimizing titles and descriptions for YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and even your own web sites.

 

 

If you do not know how to use Facebook for business call in and learn. Over 800 Million now use Facebook thats another 200 Million that joined in 2011 alone.You may have already seen it that the search engines tell you what your friends like. That’s social media and the power of reaching friends of your friends. If you are not on Facebook you don’t even have one friend recommending your business  For the local business man its about reaching for local friends in their own markets and getting your message in front of your friends friends.

Robb’s predictions of what small business’s should be doing for online marketing including using all of that free poor mans marketing available .

Chiroptophobia -The Fear Of Bats
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Chiroptophobia -The Fear Of Bats

By Trapper Robb Russell,  Anytime Wildlife Control Gainesville Florida.


Sadly the  idea of bats being beneficial is met with disbelief by many even today who  find it hard to accept. The abnormal fear of bats can put some folks into a panic with the mere flap of a leathery wing.

Bats probably got their bad name because  they are mostly active at night and the night has always been associated by earlier societies as a source of fear alone as anything related to darkness.  We have pretty good evidence of man and bats living in the same caves. Cave man and bats lived in close proximity to each other and it’s when bats abandoned the cave that the bugs made the jump to humans and are closely related to bed bugs today.

Bat phobia is present even in today’s society !!

Bats won’t fly into your hair by the way; we have no vampire bats , werewolves, Dracula or vampires native to the United States and Canada either. We really have no issues with bats as people here in North America just their association with bad superstitions. 

 

As early as the 16th century, there were reports of bats that drank blood, but the exact identities of these animals were not confirmed for another  200 years. As a race we tend to fear what we do not understand and since bats are rarely seen sadly they will become victimized needlessly.

Bats are also though to as Flying mice when truthfully they are more closely related to primates then they are to any rodent especially a mouse. The Germans probably had a lot ot do with this misconception  by calling a bat a ” fledermaus ” which literally translates in English as a flying mouse.

Bats are not always portrayed as evil in world mythologies.  Eastern folklore from the Orient have an entirely different opinion of bats ! Chinese folklore always showed the bat as a symbol of good luck and good fortune and the Chinese word for bat is ” bianfu ” !  Five bats are often pictured together to represent a long life, wealth, good health, love of virtue and a natural death. 

Cao Zhi, a noted poet of the Three Kingdoms Period (220-280), wrote a poem entitled “About the Bat”, which reads: “The bat is born of an evil spirit, shunned by beasts and rejected by birds.”  In one of Aesop’s Fables, during a war between birds and beasts the bat is portrayed as “two-faced,” ready to ally itself with whichever of the two species became the victor. When the two entities eventually reached a peace agreement, the bat was despised and rejected by both, causing it to hide by day, coming out only at night.

It was not until modern times it became common knowledge that the bat is neither a magic vampire nor knightly, but merely a mammal that can fly. Its echolocation, rather than its eyes, help it to navigate safely at night, and gave credence to the phrase “blind as a bat”.

After thousands of years of being detested and feared by humankind, a few centuries ago bats experienced a positive change in overall attitude towards them. The Chinese word for bat is bianfu — fu being a homophone for happiness.  By the middle and late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911,) favorable bat motifs had had become widely used on architecture, textiles, embroidery, paintings, chinaware, furniture, and brick and stone carvings as symbols of happiness. Thanks to artistic license, they were generally given a far more attractive appearance than is true in real life.

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My own experiences with bats is I found them remarkably gentle creatures that eat a large volume of insects with each night flight and estimated to be about 8000 insects including mosquitoes, moths. Some bat species are also recognized as native pollinators and our a vital part of our ecosystems.

Insectivorous  bats feed primarily on night-flying insects such as  moths, beetles, fruit flies, mosquitoes, mayflies, caddis flies, and midges. Frugivorous and nectivorous bats eat fruit, pollen, or nectar from plants or flowers.

Foraging habitat for bats often include wooden lot canopies and understory, over streams and other bodies of water, in open fields and agricultural  cropland, over desert landscapes, and in lighted, residential areas in which large populations of insects

 

Want to learn more about bats please visit Trapper Robb’s  Bat Removal Web site batremovalpro.com

 

Read the rest of this article on  Why We Need To Preserve and Keep Our Bats