Steve Albano will be joining us this Sunday Night, Feb 26, 2011. Listen to a previous podcast with Steve Albano back in April 2008. His web site http://www.traplineproducts.com

Steve Albano On Moles & Gophers

April 13, 2008

http://www.blubrry.com/wildlifecontrol/217678/steve-albano-on-moles-gophers/

A full evening with Steve Albano, of Peninsula Animal Trapping PO Box 4128 Menlo Park, CA 94025 (650) 363-7963 stevealbano@thegophinator.com We learn all about his wildlife control business and his products he has to offer the industry. After more than 14 years of operating a gopher and mole control service business using the marginally effective traps available on the market, Steve threw them all away in frustration, and designed The Gophinator. Recently Steve also released a new mole trap and sent out sample to various professionals throughout the industry to filed test them. Steve will be handling calls tonight on both his new mole trap and using The Gophinator in his business.

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

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Click Here To Listen To The Recorded Podcast

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.

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 .

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.

- http://www.speleophilately.com

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

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On Saturday, March 14th,2009 I got a call from my son’s best friend’s mom that  her husband found a raccoon down the street. She was all teary eyed  over the phone and on her way to pick up her husband who was at work and needing to come home because he became sick and that he refused to get medical help and she asked me to step in and try to help the situation.

Robb Russell, Fort White, Florida Using A Control Pole To Handle the Rabies Suspect Raccoon

So I made the phone call to their local health department in Suwanee County, Florida  who obviously wanted me to go bring them the coon. Did I forget to mention, they kept it in a outside bathroom and it was tearing the bathroom up.

The coon turned out to be a young juvenile and the bite broke his skin on his right forearm and looked to be healing well, no redness, no swelling and thankfully a good clean looking wound healing well. But good looking or not since rabies runs through saliva and not the blood stream it was necessary to have the coon protected and determine whether the coon had rabies and whether rabies treatment needed to be initiated right away.

So I went over poled the coon, shot it per instructions from the health department  and took it to the lab for a necropsy and filled out the incident report with the health department .

The lab results were shipped  via FedEx to the state lab in Jacksonville , Florida and thankfully 48 hours later we were all relieved to learn the coon did not have rabies.

The dad, promised he would think twice next time but not really sure if he learned anything today but at least I got the animal tested.

What To Do If Bitten By Any Animal

If you have been bitten or scratched by an animal that might
be rabid, do the following:

• Act promptly, but do not panic. It takes time for the rabies
virus to react in the body.

• Capture and kill the suspect animal, if possible, without
destroying the head.

• Wash the wound immediately and thoroughly with generous
amounts of soap and water. Then apply rubbing alcohol or
a strong solution of water and iodine to the exposed areas
(except for the eyes, of course).

• Contact a physician immediately after this first-aid treatment.
Rabies vaccine and antiserum will then be administered as
required.

About The Author:

Robb Russell provides wildlife,bird and animal services to all of Alachua,Bradford, Columbia,Gilchrist,Union and Suwanee Florida Counties including the towns/cities of Lake City,Fort White,Watertown, Five Points, Lake Butler, Raiford, Worthington Springs,Glen St. Mary, Macclenny, Alachua, Archer, Gainesville,Hawthorne, High Springs, LaCrosse, Micanopy, Newberry, Waldo, Jonesville, Haile Plantation, Bell, Fanning Springs, Trenton,Jasper,Jennings,White Springs,Branford, Live Oak, O’Brien, McAlpin, Wellborn, and Mayo .

Additional Professional Services:

Specializing in the humane removal of: Moles, Squirrels (Gray,Fox and Flying), Bats, Beavers, Birds, Raccoons, Opossums, Skunks, Snakes, Coyotes,Foxes, Snapping Turtles, Nutria, Armadillo,Live Honey Bee Removal and much more

You can reach Robb by phone at 1-352-575-0121 or visit his website.

Are you familiar with either the pest control,  wildlife removal industry, beekeeping or social media?

I do a lot of writing and could use a little help with some ghost writing original material every now and then for our network of nearly 900 web sites. I pay $9 per 500 words .

Interested ?

Email me at mypestguy@aol.com