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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp

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Speaker 1: from News Talks EDB Squeaky Door or Squeaky Floor Get

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Speaker 1: the right advice from Peter Wolfcamp the Resident Builder with

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Speaker 2: The roots on the road. But we've managed to track

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Speaker 2: him down at very good morning, sir.

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Speaker 3: You did track me down, Peter. I have good morning

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Speaker 3: to you too, and.

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Speaker 2: Will yeah, I am very well, thank you. Lovely day

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Speaker 2: in the garden yesterday, which was awesome, so.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, good yeah, I've not done garden. I've looked at

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Speaker 4: nature's gardens in Punakaiki and Kotka and the gorge and

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Speaker 4: place like it, and gosh, we can learn so much,

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Speaker 4: can't we.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, that's the way to go. Hey, yeah, we've

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Speaker 2: got a fullbad call, so let's let's rip into it.

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Speaker 2: But I must tell you there is growing excitement in

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Speaker 2: the house about this visit to Wingspan. I know we've

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Speaker 2: talked about it for a long time and I'm the

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Speaker 2: world's slowest traveler, but to buy crikey excitement as building,

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Speaker 2: isn't it yeah, Monday. Awesome, right, let's get amongst that. Simon,

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Speaker 2: A very good morning to you.

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Speaker 5: Yes, hi, Hi, Peter and Ruth. I have a question

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Speaker 5: about insect bites.

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Speaker 3: Go on.

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Speaker 5: I've been having bites and they start off just very small,

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Speaker 5: and then they turn into sort of largish pink circles.

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Speaker 5: I suspect that they were fleas because I just last

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Speaker 5: night I found a flea on my skin and killed it.

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Speaker 5: Would that.

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Speaker 4: Be your well, to be quite honest, everybody has different

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Speaker 4: reactions to bites, to be quite honest, and and that

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Speaker 4: is and I'm not very good at identifying what comes what.

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Speaker 4: But if you've found a flea on your body and

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Speaker 4: you've got an reaction from a bite, then you can

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Speaker 4: quite likely say this is the one that did it.

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Speaker 4: I don't, to be quite I'm not a doctor, so

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Speaker 4: I'm not if you're like, okay, to tell you what

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Speaker 4: to do with it. If you've got any way of

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Speaker 4: alleviating that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 5: Yes, so I've been. The pharmacist said, oh, take antihistamine

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Speaker 5: like tell Fast or something like that. So that's been working.

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Speaker 5: So also they suggested to use a slee bomb. So

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Speaker 5: it only seems to be in one in a bedroom

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Speaker 5: that the proper case.

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Speaker 3: And you don't have pets. You don't have.

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Speaker 5: Pets, no, no, I was wondering, how do they get in?

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Speaker 5: How do they get introduced into the house.

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Speaker 4: Well, there are there are so many different types of fleas,

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Speaker 4: if you're like a different different types of fleas.

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Speaker 3: Some are go of course on dogs and cats, as

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Speaker 3: cats flee.

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Speaker 4: S, as dog fleeces also, but there are also fleas

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Speaker 4: that live on the birds that might nest in your

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Speaker 4: ceiling or in your roof, or near the or next

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Speaker 4: to the house or whatever, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: And especially when the nest has fled.

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Speaker 4: In other words, when mom and dad and their babies

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Speaker 4: They then are looking for somebody with blood and guess

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Speaker 4: who that is.

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Speaker 3: That has to be.

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Speaker 4: Silent because you're nearby, you know what I mean. So

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Speaker 4: they could come from all sorts of things. If you

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Speaker 4: would have that, if your for instance, have that flea

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Speaker 4: that you're killed, still, somebody, some entomologists nearby might be

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Speaker 4: able to identify exactly which type of flea it was,

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Speaker 4: and then you can do a bit of a little

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Speaker 4: trick of finding out where it came.

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Speaker 5: From the cops, you know, right, And when they get

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Speaker 5: into the house, where do they normally reside? Would it

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Speaker 5: be in the carpet.

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Speaker 4: Or anywhere really, anywhere where it's nice and warm, and

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Speaker 4: anywhere where they find somebody that has some blood, warm

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Speaker 4: blooded creatures that exhale carbon dioxide and inhale oxygen, because

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Speaker 4: that's what you do, of course as a person, as

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Speaker 4: a human, and that's how they find you.

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Speaker 5: Right. And would there be if I'm getting bites, would

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Speaker 5: there be a lot of a lot of fleas or

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Speaker 5: could it just be like one or two that have

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Speaker 4: In the in the in my scenario of maybe it'd

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Speaker 4: be bird fleas, it's probably fewer than you think, and

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Speaker 4: you're just a bit of unlucky. But it will also

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Speaker 4: then become less and less important because those fleas.

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Speaker 3: Will not I don't think.

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Speaker 4: They may be very happy with your type of blood

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Speaker 4: because I think they would rather have the blood of

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Speaker 3: They're hosts, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: So they're not they're not going to be they're not

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Speaker 4: going to be a big nuisance for a long time.

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Speaker 4: You've just struck it unlucky that is quite often the case.

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Speaker 5: A right, Oh, that's a fantastic help.

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Speaker 2: Simon, all the very best.

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 2: It is kind of nasty. There's a lot of sea

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Speaker 2: lice in Auckland at the moment, so people are complaining

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Speaker 2: about the old sea lice at the moment too. Joe,

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Speaker 2: good morning to.

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Speaker 6: You, running guys. Hi coming into this so called summertime.

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Speaker 6: Now Corey Blue, so called Corey Blue is and I'm

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Speaker 6: going to read pot. Basically, I bought it new, obviously,

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Speaker 6: and I'm just wondering if there's if there's any favor.

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Speaker 6: I've got the ticket thing, you know, information, but it

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Speaker 6: seems like a very fussy, fragile fol edge that I'm

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Speaker 6: just wondering to have it as indoor or an outdoor

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Speaker 6: or how the top should be that I put the

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Speaker 6: plant into without losing its.

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Speaker 4: Can you please please spell that Corey blue, because I'm

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Speaker 4: not getting I don't know what. That doesn't ring a

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Speaker 4: bell for me?

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Speaker 3: Can you please spell that for me?

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Speaker 4: C O R?

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Speaker 6: Why? Yeah, sorry, Dallas the A A L L. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: and that's porcelain blue. Yeah, And that's about all estensially

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Speaker 6: and just anyway, fred Gerle plant, I might just keep

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Speaker 6: it inside as a house plant. I'm not sure or I.

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Speaker 4: Think yes, you might be right, Yeah, you might be

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Speaker 4: right to put that and keep that indoors.

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Speaker 3: Where are you based, guess giusee.

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Speaker 6: So thanks for the wedding thing. And I said, look, mum,

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Speaker 6: and I'm still sorry. One more quick one. I'm still

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Speaker 6: having a little bit of trouble with that funny grasp

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Speaker 6: with the little sprung hard sort of waxy ducts, a

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Speaker 6: sort of seeds at the top, you know, grows and

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Speaker 6: blah blah blah. I've sprayed and I don't really like

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Speaker 6: us and spray, but yeah, not with it to dig

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Speaker 6: it out a real quondrum.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, get rid of it as soon as you can

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Speaker 4: and dig it out. If that's the way for the

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Speaker 4: spray doesn't work, there's probably your best way to go, Joe.

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Speaker 2: A little bit of extra time in the sunshine gisbin,

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Speaker 2: where of course it never rains. Oh eight hundred eighty

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Speaker 2: ten eighty is number if you've got a question. Now,

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Speaker 2: a timber ceiling root with no roof cavity. People are

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Speaker 2: struggling with the ants that are living there, throwing out

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Speaker 2: they're dead. We've tried raid, We've tried, no morants other things.

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Speaker 2: None of them seem to have impacted on a population

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Speaker 2: that are haffing. It did out probably through the light footings.

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Speaker 4: Yes, there's always a little hole that they think that's

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Speaker 4: a good place.

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Speaker 3: That's where we're going to put a bit.

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Speaker 4: Like the guy who lives next door to the place

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Speaker 4: where were at the moment here and in Punakaiki, he

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Speaker 4: still burns all of the stuff from his guard and

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Speaker 4: then I go, and I was were about to go,

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Speaker 4: so I thought maybe I could talk to him about

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Speaker 4: climate change in some states, But that's another story.

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Speaker 3: It's a bit.

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Speaker 4: But ants do that because they can actually dump their

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Speaker 4: dead bodies or the stuff that they've been eating, basically

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Speaker 4: down low down in a hole into the ground, knowing

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Speaker 4: that everything.

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Speaker 3: Will be recycled. And that is exactly what this is about.

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Speaker 4: Now, if they live in your ceiling, and if you

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Speaker 4: can get into your ceiling with an aerosol can, it

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Speaker 4: might be an idea to get some of that safe

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Speaker 4: work stuff, and if you could chuck that into the

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Speaker 4: ceiling cavity, you'll find that the ants will get really

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Speaker 4: really nasty, in fact, so nasty that they'll die and

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Speaker 4: that'll be the end of it.

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Speaker 3: And that is probably the best way to go.

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Speaker 2: About brilliant idea. Thank you very much. My mind is

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Speaker 2: distracted by your your comment about the answer to tipping

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Speaker 2: out their waist, and I'm thinking it's it's like the

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Speaker 2: old medieval castles, you know, if you looked at where

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Speaker 2: the toilets were, they were just like an abutment and

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Speaker 2: the pun and you just do your business and drops

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Speaker 2: down the outside of the castle. I thought you'd like that, right, Christine,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much for that. That's fabulous. Mary A

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Speaker 2: very no, actually, Christine, good.

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Speaker 7: Oh, good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 6: My dear, thank you.

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Speaker 7: I live in the western Bay of kinchi Essenry and

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Speaker 7: it's semi tropical here. I've got a problem when I

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Speaker 7: want some advice with my passion fruit bye. Every year

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Speaker 7: I had the speak fruit by and what happens? Does

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Speaker 7: the passion moth come in? Just give us stated. So

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Speaker 7: I've been trying to look after this year, taking away

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Speaker 7: all dead meta and spraying of work. Actually, somebody told

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Speaker 7: me vinegar side of vinegar and water and that sort

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Speaker 7: of has kicked them at bay. But it's not looking

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Speaker 7: great and it's got thousands of fruit on it. What

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Speaker 7: should I do to look after my passion fruit vine.

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Speaker 4: Well, if it's the passion vine hopper, are you talking

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Speaker 4: about the fluffy bums that are on there.

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Speaker 7: Well, there's a little gray moth. It's a fluffy bumb.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly, I think so if you're talking about

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Speaker 4: a moth, it looks like a moth, but it's not

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Speaker 4: a moth. It's actually a true bug, a sept sucking

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Speaker 4: they call it. Yeah, yeah, but the lovely sea throws

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Speaker 4: wings if you like, yes you can.

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Speaker 3: See, yeah exactly, yeah, you got it.

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Speaker 4: So in that particular place, in that particular space of

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Speaker 4: their development, they are not that could at causing trouble.

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Speaker 4: They will have done that when they were a fluffy

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Speaker 4: bum larvae. Okay, so but here comes to thing. You

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Speaker 4: are too late by combating fluffy bombs. That should be

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Speaker 4: done in the springtime, say November October, November, when the

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Speaker 4: very first eggs hatch, and you've got the tiniest fluffy

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Speaker 4: bombs sitting in the tops of your plants.

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Speaker 3: In the morning, when the wind is.

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Speaker 4: Still, you get yourself any aerosol can you can find,

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Speaker 4: fly spray, it doesn't matter. You spray it onto those

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Speaker 4: things they try to hop away, but because they're too

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Speaker 4: small and too weak, they actually gather more insecticide by

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Speaker 4: flying through it or jumping through it.

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Speaker 3: And basically that's the end of that particular group. That

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Speaker 3: is a really clever trick.

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Speaker 4: In the springtime, when you see the very first ones,

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Speaker 4: keep an eye out on them.

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Speaker 3: October November.

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Speaker 7: Okay, so I can just sprayl with fly spray.

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Speaker 3: You can.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, But the point now is that they are so

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Speaker 4: because these guys are so if you like so quick,

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Speaker 3: So you're really too late with this.

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Speaker 3: That sort of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Mary A very good morning to you.

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Speaker 8: Morning, Pete and Rupe. I just didn't sound route something is.

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Speaker 8: Yesterday on Francesca's program he took someone talked about stagnant

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Speaker 4: Well, sometimes in the old days people would put let's

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Speaker 4: But there are materials that you can use in if

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Speaker 8: The only place that I can think that this sort

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's an easy way to empty it.

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Speaker 4: Empty it every two or three days, every No, empty

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Speaker 9: Oh good, good morning. Peter Rude, and I want to

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Speaker 4: And they do that to all our native moths and

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Speaker 9: Right Well, I yeah, Well in that case, I'll hopefully

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Speaker 9: it's still there. If I can destroy it, well.

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Speaker 4: The best way to do it is with two people

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Speaker 2: Short straw, all the best. I did notice on the

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Speaker 2: Hey, enjoy the coast and we'll talk next Sunday. Love

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Speaker 2: your work, take care of yours, take care all the best,

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Speaker 2: right he oh. I look forward to being back with

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