1 00:00:06,815 --> 00:00:10,695 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp 2 00:00:10,895 --> 00:00:12,295 Speaker 1: from News talks'd. 3 00:00:11,895 --> 00:00:14,575 Speaker 2: Be and test that was there quite often. 4 00:00:14,935 --> 00:00:17,415 Speaker 3: Hey, just talking about something else we've already talked about. 5 00:00:17,495 --> 00:00:19,375 Speaker 3: I left it last week, but I have to tell 6 00:00:19,415 --> 00:00:24,735 Speaker 3: people in the roda Ua area that our falconry place 7 00:00:25,095 --> 00:00:28,055 Speaker 3: is of course going to be on this on the 8 00:00:28,095 --> 00:00:33,535 Speaker 3: seventh this month, Saturday, between nine and two. Wingspan. Get 9 00:00:33,615 --> 00:00:36,415 Speaker 3: your tickets early donated with wingspand whatever you need to do. 10 00:00:36,495 --> 00:00:38,775 Speaker 3: But it's going to be great. Wingspan is a whole 11 00:00:38,855 --> 00:00:41,735 Speaker 3: day there and all the animals will be there, all 12 00:00:41,735 --> 00:00:45,055 Speaker 3: the people that fly. It's something you cannot miss. Just 13 00:00:45,095 --> 00:00:46,215 Speaker 3: thought that mate mention. 14 00:00:46,135 --> 00:00:49,575 Speaker 2: It absolutely no and look it's you know, even if 15 00:00:49,575 --> 00:00:52,135 Speaker 2: you're in Auckland, it's not a bad drive. You know, 16 00:00:52,175 --> 00:00:53,055 Speaker 2: it's worth going up. 17 00:00:53,495 --> 00:00:56,335 Speaker 3: And I totally agree, Yeah for sure. Yeah no, I 18 00:00:56,415 --> 00:00:57,615 Speaker 3: stayed there quite a bit, so. 19 00:00:57,575 --> 00:00:59,855 Speaker 2: Ridio, let's get amongst it. If you've got a question 20 00:01:00,015 --> 00:01:03,175 Speaker 2: for it. It is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. Happy 21 00:01:03,215 --> 00:01:07,495 Speaker 2: to take dicks as well. Diane, Good morning to you. 22 00:01:08,255 --> 00:01:15,975 Speaker 4: Good mornings, Hi, welcome to our wonderful summer. The od 23 00:01:16,095 --> 00:01:18,495 Speaker 4: T is so informed us. We had five warm days 24 00:01:18,495 --> 00:01:21,335 Speaker 4: this summer, so in your experience in one of them 25 00:01:21,375 --> 00:01:22,175 Speaker 4: this morning. 26 00:01:23,655 --> 00:01:26,055 Speaker 3: Actually, to be quite honest, I heard Peter saying that 27 00:01:26,135 --> 00:01:29,975 Speaker 3: it was already been drizzling in Auckland at the moment. 28 00:01:30,015 --> 00:01:31,815 Speaker 3: It's still a bit sunny in christ He. 29 00:01:33,295 --> 00:01:34,775 Speaker 4: Send it down our way, thank you. 30 00:01:34,855 --> 00:01:37,135 Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's it's it's got You know what's going 31 00:01:37,135 --> 00:01:39,255 Speaker 3: to happen, don't you? 32 00:01:39,255 --> 00:01:41,095 Speaker 4: You will get it. It's from the south. You're going 33 00:01:41,135 --> 00:01:41,535 Speaker 4: to get it. 34 00:01:41,855 --> 00:01:42,975 Speaker 3: I know it's from the south. 35 00:01:44,175 --> 00:01:47,535 Speaker 4: It's coming from the south. Here's Disney. Not a strong one, 36 00:01:47,535 --> 00:01:52,135 Speaker 4: but it's a weird one. We did a wonderful job 37 00:01:52,215 --> 00:01:54,855 Speaker 4: of pouring ditting oil over it, less than a meter 38 00:01:55,015 --> 00:02:00,855 Speaker 4: of our front lawn. O. What do we need to 39 00:02:00,975 --> 00:02:05,695 Speaker 4: do to fix the soil before we rea? 40 00:02:06,015 --> 00:02:06,735 Speaker 5: So so it. 41 00:02:09,135 --> 00:02:13,575 Speaker 3: Prevented damage? What do you do? It's nasty, isn't it. 42 00:02:13,575 --> 00:02:15,935 Speaker 3: It suffocates the soil and things like that. 43 00:02:16,935 --> 00:02:18,655 Speaker 4: I wondered about that and I find down and the 44 00:02:18,695 --> 00:02:19,855 Speaker 4: soil would it have gone? 45 00:02:20,655 --> 00:02:23,615 Speaker 3: I don't know, It depends, It depends on exactly. That's 46 00:02:23,655 --> 00:02:25,535 Speaker 3: I was just what's my next question? How far did 47 00:02:25,615 --> 00:02:28,695 Speaker 3: you did you mess it up? But what you could 48 00:02:28,775 --> 00:02:31,815 Speaker 3: do is if because the grass is going down the gurglar, 49 00:02:31,895 --> 00:02:33,135 Speaker 3: isn't it so? 50 00:02:33,295 --> 00:02:33,495 Speaker 5: Sure? 51 00:02:33,615 --> 00:02:37,655 Speaker 4: It's lovely brown? Yeah, yeah, instant, instant. 52 00:02:38,655 --> 00:02:42,015 Speaker 3: What may be an idea is to get and it's 53 00:02:42,015 --> 00:02:43,655 Speaker 3: only a square meter. 54 00:02:44,335 --> 00:02:46,695 Speaker 4: That listener screen measure. 55 00:02:46,975 --> 00:02:50,055 Speaker 3: Okay, dig it up, dig it up to about twenty 56 00:02:50,095 --> 00:02:54,055 Speaker 3: centimeters and and get some new Yeah. No, honestly, get 57 00:02:54,135 --> 00:02:55,975 Speaker 3: rid of it, because it's much quicker to do it 58 00:02:55,975 --> 00:02:59,135 Speaker 3: that way. Then get some new material over the top 59 00:02:59,175 --> 00:03:01,735 Speaker 3: from from elsewhere, and you can you can buy it 60 00:03:01,815 --> 00:03:06,655 Speaker 3: as soil literally, and then re resor it from now 61 00:03:06,655 --> 00:03:10,535 Speaker 3: on as soon as you can. I honestly, it's because 62 00:03:10,575 --> 00:03:12,495 Speaker 3: it's a pain in the bum when it goes all 63 00:03:12,535 --> 00:03:14,175 Speaker 3: the way there and you keep on sewing and it 64 00:03:14,255 --> 00:03:18,375 Speaker 3: keeps on going. Nap. Now, excessive dirt and oil contamination's 65 00:03:18,615 --> 00:03:23,535 Speaker 3: never good. Hot soapy water might help, but oh you 66 00:03:23,535 --> 00:03:25,975 Speaker 3: can try it with hot soapy water. But I mean, 67 00:03:26,015 --> 00:03:28,655 Speaker 3: that's all I would say. After that, you'll probably find no, 68 00:03:29,095 --> 00:03:30,535 Speaker 3: I'll dig up only a little bit. 69 00:03:31,535 --> 00:03:36,015 Speaker 4: Okay, all right, that's great. Thanks for appreciate that, and good. 70 00:03:35,895 --> 00:03:36,535 Speaker 3: Luck with that. Eh. 71 00:03:37,495 --> 00:03:42,455 Speaker 2: Yes, it's a bit of digging, and then what to 72 00:03:42,455 --> 00:03:42,815 Speaker 2: do with it? 73 00:03:43,295 --> 00:03:43,815 Speaker 3: Square meter? 74 00:03:44,655 --> 00:03:47,735 Speaker 2: It really need to take it to your local recycling, 75 00:03:47,895 --> 00:03:50,855 Speaker 2: you know, your local resource recovery or tip or whatever 76 00:03:51,095 --> 00:03:53,455 Speaker 2: and dump it. Wouldn't You can't use it anywhere in 77 00:03:53,495 --> 00:03:53,895 Speaker 2: the garden. 78 00:03:54,535 --> 00:03:59,095 Speaker 3: No, that's right, that's right. It will of course in time. 79 00:03:59,535 --> 00:04:02,535 Speaker 3: Sure you've got enough space, and it rains, and you 80 00:04:02,615 --> 00:04:05,695 Speaker 3: get winter and you're at summer, and you'll probably find 81 00:04:05,735 --> 00:04:07,735 Speaker 3: it will go way at some stage. But it takes 82 00:04:07,775 --> 00:04:08,495 Speaker 3: a while, you're right. 83 00:04:08,735 --> 00:04:11,975 Speaker 2: Yikes. Gwinn A very good morning to you. 84 00:04:12,775 --> 00:04:17,415 Speaker 6: Oh, good morning. Some time ago you talked about using whitn' 85 00:04:17,455 --> 00:04:20,415 Speaker 6: forget on lawns for moths or something I have an 86 00:04:20,415 --> 00:04:23,375 Speaker 6: issue with. Obviously now it's all round off and you 87 00:04:23,455 --> 00:04:26,935 Speaker 6: talked about using a half treatment of it. But the 88 00:04:26,975 --> 00:04:30,215 Speaker 6: waton forget comes in a in a container that you're 89 00:04:30,255 --> 00:04:34,375 Speaker 6: attached to your hose. So what sort of ratio? How 90 00:04:34,375 --> 00:04:35,735 Speaker 6: do you work that out? 91 00:04:36,015 --> 00:04:40,375 Speaker 3: Are you talking about the species wed and forget the 92 00:04:40,415 --> 00:04:44,415 Speaker 3: stuff use I used to get moss mold and guns 93 00:04:44,615 --> 00:04:48,775 Speaker 3: away from Okay, that's the one. And where is that 94 00:04:48,935 --> 00:04:50,615 Speaker 3: moss molden gun? Is it on your house? 95 00:04:51,495 --> 00:04:51,735 Speaker 4: No? 96 00:04:51,735 --> 00:04:54,495 Speaker 6: No, on the lawn. But I seem to recall and 97 00:04:54,815 --> 00:04:57,855 Speaker 6: correct me if I'm wrong that you talked about using 98 00:04:57,895 --> 00:05:00,855 Speaker 6: it you could do it spray on your lawn, but 99 00:05:00,935 --> 00:05:05,095 Speaker 6: they're a half half ratio yep. 100 00:05:05,615 --> 00:05:07,735 Speaker 3: Okay, And and them and then wait and forget you 101 00:05:07,735 --> 00:05:10,815 Speaker 3: have is that within within them nozzles system. 102 00:05:10,815 --> 00:05:12,655 Speaker 6: With the nozzle. Yeah, I don't think you can get 103 00:05:12,655 --> 00:05:13,535 Speaker 6: it without a nozzle. 104 00:05:14,295 --> 00:05:17,055 Speaker 3: I think you can because it comes from Yeah, the 105 00:05:17,215 --> 00:05:20,095 Speaker 3: actual weather. Forget comes in all sorts of things. Okay. 106 00:05:20,135 --> 00:05:22,815 Speaker 3: What I would do is, yes, I would get if 107 00:05:22,815 --> 00:05:25,055 Speaker 3: you really want to get rid of that sort of stuff, 108 00:05:26,175 --> 00:05:28,255 Speaker 3: do it half and half with water. So what I 109 00:05:28,255 --> 00:05:30,495 Speaker 3: would do is and and the reason I'm doing that 110 00:05:30,615 --> 00:05:34,095 Speaker 3: is because you don't really want to uh stuff your lawn, 111 00:05:34,335 --> 00:05:38,455 Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I don't want to do that, no, exactly. 112 00:05:38,575 --> 00:05:40,495 Speaker 3: So what I would do is do it that half 113 00:05:40,855 --> 00:05:46,135 Speaker 3: half speeders I say, half numbers in and watering can 114 00:05:46,295 --> 00:05:47,215 Speaker 3: and do it by hand. 115 00:05:48,215 --> 00:05:52,175 Speaker 6: Oh, I say, right, So you're literally using I wasn't 116 00:05:52,175 --> 00:05:54,815 Speaker 6: sure because it comes out the spray bottle. You know 117 00:05:54,975 --> 00:05:57,655 Speaker 6: that that you were using half of what came out 118 00:05:57,735 --> 00:06:02,855 Speaker 6: the spray, the actual concentrate. It's half and half. 119 00:06:03,695 --> 00:06:05,415 Speaker 3: Right exactly. That's what I would do. 120 00:06:05,415 --> 00:06:05,775 Speaker 2: Do it. 121 00:06:05,935 --> 00:06:08,815 Speaker 3: Try it. Try it first, a little bit of patch 122 00:06:09,095 --> 00:06:13,535 Speaker 3: somewhere you know one particular place and if everything works 123 00:06:13,655 --> 00:06:15,935 Speaker 3: nicely that way, you can do the rest as well. 124 00:06:16,255 --> 00:06:18,375 Speaker 3: You know, it's always trying things on the under side 125 00:06:18,375 --> 00:06:19,895 Speaker 3: of the carpet, you know what I mean. 126 00:06:20,935 --> 00:06:24,855 Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll try a little spot on it. Sign. Okay, 127 00:06:24,895 --> 00:06:27,735 Speaker 6: thank you so much for that. Thank you great now always. 128 00:06:27,455 --> 00:06:29,895 Speaker 3: And if you get into that half half size or 129 00:06:29,935 --> 00:06:33,255 Speaker 3: that half strength, you'll find that it'll work. If it 130 00:06:33,295 --> 00:06:35,415 Speaker 3: works like that, hey, you go easy. 131 00:06:35,295 --> 00:06:40,535 Speaker 2: Okay, and chine a very good morning to you. 132 00:06:43,415 --> 00:06:51,295 Speaker 7: Good morning. My strong plants have got little orange eggs 133 00:06:51,495 --> 00:06:55,455 Speaker 7: on them in clusters. Are you reverb on the finger 134 00:06:55,535 --> 00:07:00,175 Speaker 7: and thumb. I stayed my finger and thumb quite orange, 135 00:07:00,535 --> 00:07:01,735 Speaker 7: and I'm wondering what they are. 136 00:07:03,215 --> 00:07:06,695 Speaker 3: I don't know because the white eggs I don't ones 137 00:07:06,735 --> 00:07:12,215 Speaker 3: of the butterfly, yes, the you know exactly what I mean, though, 138 00:07:12,255 --> 00:07:16,055 Speaker 3: don't Yeah, yeah, no, I don't know what they would be. 139 00:07:16,535 --> 00:07:20,495 Speaker 3: Have you seen any other creatures on your swan plant 140 00:07:20,495 --> 00:07:22,255 Speaker 3: that you think? I wonder what it is? 141 00:07:23,375 --> 00:07:27,095 Speaker 7: No? No, last year, the eggs were quite low down 142 00:07:27,135 --> 00:07:31,055 Speaker 7: on them, but that's there on the tips of the branches. 143 00:07:31,975 --> 00:07:34,255 Speaker 2: I had a risk of straying off the reservation and 144 00:07:34,695 --> 00:07:37,895 Speaker 2: going into a place that I shouldn't be having had 145 00:07:37,935 --> 00:07:41,735 Speaker 2: swan plants, I wonder. And the things that I squish 146 00:07:41,855 --> 00:07:43,855 Speaker 2: and they go yellow are the little aphids. 147 00:07:44,415 --> 00:07:49,135 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. That's those are the orange orange yellow aphids. 148 00:07:49,215 --> 00:07:51,855 Speaker 3: That's right. And they're usually at the top stio Peter, 149 00:07:51,975 --> 00:07:54,095 Speaker 3: you're you're you should do this show, you. 150 00:07:54,095 --> 00:07:56,215 Speaker 2: Know, no, no, no, no, I'm going back to my 151 00:07:56,375 --> 00:07:57,135 Speaker 2: side of the fence. 152 00:07:57,215 --> 00:08:00,495 Speaker 3: But you know, this is really this is exactly what 153 00:08:00,535 --> 00:08:02,735 Speaker 3: it is. That was one of them. The other ones 154 00:08:02,735 --> 00:08:06,215 Speaker 3: would have been things like insects or what do you 155 00:08:06,335 --> 00:08:09,335 Speaker 3: call them, beetles that lay their eggs there. But I 156 00:08:09,495 --> 00:08:11,775 Speaker 3: reckon you're right, it is that. That's what it is, 157 00:08:12,175 --> 00:08:15,375 Speaker 3: and they are they are, and that you can squash 158 00:08:15,415 --> 00:08:17,015 Speaker 3: those if you like those eggs. 159 00:08:18,255 --> 00:08:20,815 Speaker 7: Yeah, that've got a little bit. Let's stop in the 160 00:08:20,815 --> 00:08:22,935 Speaker 7: middle of them. 161 00:08:23,255 --> 00:08:28,095 Speaker 3: Yeah, could do yeah, yeah. 162 00:08:25,935 --> 00:08:27,935 Speaker 7: Yeah, but that's over anything. 163 00:08:27,935 --> 00:08:31,895 Speaker 3: Just that the eggs. It's still once they I am hatching, 164 00:08:31,975 --> 00:08:36,375 Speaker 3: they come out as a fits. That's right. Ever, go yeah, okay, 165 00:08:37,215 --> 00:08:39,375 Speaker 3: and you do that digitally. 166 00:08:40,455 --> 00:08:43,375 Speaker 7: Yes, some finger and some you got it. 167 00:08:46,095 --> 00:08:46,615 Speaker 3: I love it. 168 00:08:47,695 --> 00:08:50,375 Speaker 7: Well done, John, Thank you very much. 169 00:08:51,095 --> 00:08:55,815 Speaker 2: Welcome, Thanks you have a great day, and lee are 170 00:08:55,935 --> 00:08:56,575 Speaker 2: very good morning. 171 00:08:56,615 --> 00:08:56,775 Speaker 4: To you. 172 00:08:57,975 --> 00:09:01,095 Speaker 8: Oh, good morning, boys. Mine's more of a bad thing. 173 00:09:01,735 --> 00:09:04,175 Speaker 8: I'm trying. I'm not on the wrong program, but oh, 174 00:09:04,255 --> 00:09:12,015 Speaker 8: yes you are. During the recent storms, which were horrible, 175 00:09:12,895 --> 00:09:15,615 Speaker 8: I fell in love. And there reason I'm saying that 176 00:09:15,695 --> 00:09:18,535 Speaker 8: I live on the Kapiti coast. And it was the 177 00:09:18,655 --> 00:09:21,775 Speaker 8: Monday or the Tuesday after the storms. We'd had terrific winds, 178 00:09:22,375 --> 00:09:25,015 Speaker 8: and I was saying goodbye to my weak granddaughter and 179 00:09:25,055 --> 00:09:28,655 Speaker 8: it was quite a nice day, very suburban concrete paths 180 00:09:28,775 --> 00:09:31,655 Speaker 8: up to the garage door, and I looked down and 181 00:09:31,695 --> 00:09:36,415 Speaker 8: there was this enormous dragonfly. Was so beautiful. I didn't 182 00:09:36,415 --> 00:09:39,095 Speaker 8: think it was real. And we all stood, with my 183 00:09:39,175 --> 00:09:41,895 Speaker 8: daughter and granddaughter, and I would just stood, what's that? 184 00:09:42,855 --> 00:09:46,375 Speaker 8: And in our defense, we'd lived on a property with 185 00:09:46,415 --> 00:09:49,055 Speaker 8: a pond and a jetty, and we've often sat there 186 00:09:49,095 --> 00:09:53,255 Speaker 8: and admired the you know, the typical small, little fliffing dragonflies, 187 00:09:53,815 --> 00:09:57,175 Speaker 8: and here was this beast and he was hovering like 188 00:09:57,215 --> 00:10:02,615 Speaker 8: a helicopter like this. We researched it, and I think 189 00:10:02,935 --> 00:10:06,215 Speaker 8: you've probably got a proper name for it. A bush dragonfly. 190 00:10:07,095 --> 00:10:10,615 Speaker 3: Yes, the giant you got it. You're a petal like 191 00:10:10,735 --> 00:10:14,495 Speaker 3: KOVI We call it you and I, as entomologists call this, 192 00:10:14,975 --> 00:10:17,375 Speaker 3: You're a petal like Kovia. That is the letter. 193 00:10:17,495 --> 00:10:20,375 Speaker 8: That was my first guest when I looked at it. 194 00:10:20,775 --> 00:10:24,375 Speaker 8: But I think we were just so lucky to see it. 195 00:10:24,455 --> 00:10:26,895 Speaker 8: I feel that the poor thing has probably been blown 196 00:10:26,975 --> 00:10:29,735 Speaker 8: off course or blown to our place, because there's no 197 00:10:30,055 --> 00:10:32,895 Speaker 8: I do live about five hundred meters from a river, 198 00:10:33,055 --> 00:10:36,655 Speaker 8: but a very flowing river. And you know, I read 199 00:10:36,695 --> 00:10:38,535 Speaker 8: what it liked and that it was more of a 200 00:10:38,655 --> 00:10:44,175 Speaker 8: night night owl than anything, and not necessarily. I just 201 00:10:44,175 --> 00:10:47,015 Speaker 8: can't believe I'm really sor I'm sixty eight. I wouldn't 202 00:10:47,015 --> 00:10:50,295 Speaker 8: say that. And I've loved around. I never seen one 203 00:10:50,335 --> 00:10:50,895 Speaker 8: in my life. 204 00:10:51,735 --> 00:10:54,455 Speaker 3: Oh wow, now that's like, you're lucky. That's good because 205 00:10:54,695 --> 00:10:56,815 Speaker 3: this is this because you're in the North Island. It's 206 00:10:56,855 --> 00:10:59,975 Speaker 3: the North Island dragonfly gandre. This is a South Island 207 00:11:00,055 --> 00:11:02,615 Speaker 3: variety as well, which looks quite similar, to be quite honest. 208 00:11:02,935 --> 00:11:05,895 Speaker 3: And they go they go up quite high altitudes as 209 00:11:05,935 --> 00:11:08,895 Speaker 3: well in the mountains, which oh yeah, they love it. 210 00:11:09,295 --> 00:11:14,615 Speaker 3: But look, they are related to watery areas because their 211 00:11:14,735 --> 00:11:18,655 Speaker 3: babies will live usually on the edge of water, if 212 00:11:18,695 --> 00:11:22,415 Speaker 3: you like, of a watery trajectory. If you like, and 213 00:11:22,495 --> 00:11:26,095 Speaker 3: they make holes into the soil there where they live. 214 00:11:26,655 --> 00:11:28,655 Speaker 3: So that all makes total sense. 215 00:11:30,255 --> 00:11:33,655 Speaker 8: I just said, we were so so lucky. And yes, 216 00:11:33,735 --> 00:11:35,575 Speaker 8: I said, so I fell in love. I fell in 217 00:11:35,615 --> 00:11:37,215 Speaker 8: love after the storm, so that I. 218 00:11:38,935 --> 00:11:41,655 Speaker 3: Love the way you described that. That's exactly what it's about. 219 00:11:41,935 --> 00:11:47,775 Speaker 3: The giant dragonfly europetal like Coovia absolutely blown off course, No, 220 00:11:48,175 --> 00:11:52,855 Speaker 3: it would be next to your river. These things, these 221 00:11:52,935 --> 00:11:56,535 Speaker 3: things are amazing flyers, even in that heavy, heavy, heavy 222 00:11:56,615 --> 00:11:58,855 Speaker 3: wind like a helicopter. 223 00:11:59,615 --> 00:12:02,775 Speaker 8: You know, you hear and hovering. It was amazing. I 224 00:12:02,935 --> 00:12:05,215 Speaker 8: just thoughtn't that because you'd be placed. 225 00:12:05,655 --> 00:12:08,375 Speaker 3: Oh, I love thank you, I love them. And yet 226 00:12:08,455 --> 00:12:12,215 Speaker 3: you're absolutely right, and they are amazing fliers and amazing creatures. 227 00:12:12,415 --> 00:12:14,935 Speaker 3: You can catch them with a net, which is what 228 00:12:15,095 --> 00:12:15,935 Speaker 3: I do sometimes. 229 00:12:17,015 --> 00:12:22,215 Speaker 8: Do you, Oh yes, just gobsmack watching because I'll to 230 00:12:22,215 --> 00:12:24,335 Speaker 8: be honest, I don't even know they existed because it 231 00:12:24,455 --> 00:12:25,295 Speaker 8: was so big. 232 00:12:25,735 --> 00:12:28,335 Speaker 3: Yeah, but imagine working with a whole lot of kids 233 00:12:28,415 --> 00:12:30,975 Speaker 3: and teachers in the school and you have a net 234 00:12:31,055 --> 00:12:32,935 Speaker 3: with you and you catch one and then you hold 235 00:12:32,975 --> 00:12:35,775 Speaker 3: it very gently at the thorax, at the chest if 236 00:12:35,815 --> 00:12:38,015 Speaker 3: you like, and you don't do it any damage and 237 00:12:38,095 --> 00:12:39,735 Speaker 3: they look at you and they go like, now what 238 00:12:40,255 --> 00:12:42,575 Speaker 3: And then you gently open your hands and it sits 239 00:12:42,615 --> 00:12:46,375 Speaker 3: there and thinks not gone, you know, and it goes quick. 240 00:12:47,815 --> 00:12:49,415 Speaker 8: I think the best thing was that my little grand 241 00:12:49,455 --> 00:12:51,255 Speaker 8: daughter was there and she was only five and she 242 00:12:51,375 --> 00:12:55,575 Speaker 8: got preceated eyes as big as sauces. So that was lovely. Well, 243 00:12:55,655 --> 00:12:57,815 Speaker 8: thank you very much for just reassuring me that we 244 00:12:57,895 --> 00:12:59,095 Speaker 8: were right on the right track. 245 00:12:59,695 --> 00:13:01,375 Speaker 3: Lee loved the story. Thank you. 246 00:13:01,895 --> 00:13:06,215 Speaker 2: Okay, bye little story, Thank you, Lee. Uh could take 247 00:13:06,375 --> 00:13:10,535 Speaker 2: through it? Do Praying mentis eat monarch caterpillars. I've been 248 00:13:10,575 --> 00:13:13,255 Speaker 2: finding them on and under the nets over the swan 249 00:13:13,415 --> 00:13:14,255 Speaker 2: plants from Chris. 250 00:13:15,375 --> 00:13:16,695 Speaker 3: Monarch caterpillars. 251 00:13:17,775 --> 00:13:21,095 Speaker 2: They might do, yes, praying mentis, yes, they might do. 252 00:13:21,535 --> 00:13:22,295 Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely. 253 00:13:22,455 --> 00:13:25,335 Speaker 2: There'd be a meal and a half for praying menss, 254 00:13:25,335 --> 00:13:25,735 Speaker 2: wouldn't it. 255 00:13:26,295 --> 00:13:28,455 Speaker 3: Yeah, But praying men can eat a heck of a lot. 256 00:13:28,575 --> 00:13:31,535 Speaker 3: I caught a native one last night, and boy, I 257 00:13:31,615 --> 00:13:33,415 Speaker 3: put a fly in it, and that fly was gone 258 00:13:33,455 --> 00:13:35,975 Speaker 3: in about thirty seconds. 259 00:13:37,695 --> 00:13:48,655 Speaker 2: And it was great, fabulous. Right, we're gonna take a 260 00:13:48,695 --> 00:13:50,735 Speaker 2: short break. We'll talk to Bonnie straight after the break. 261 00:13:55,655 --> 00:13:58,815 Speaker 2: Texts coming. Praying mentus has sucked the living daylights out 262 00:13:58,855 --> 00:14:03,575 Speaker 2: of the monarch caterpillars from Jill. So yes, they'll obviously 263 00:14:03,655 --> 00:14:04,655 Speaker 2: snack on those as well. 264 00:14:05,135 --> 00:14:08,215 Speaker 3: Yeah, they will. They have no worries about what they 265 00:14:08,455 --> 00:14:11,335 Speaker 3: are as selective as a vacuum cleaner omnivores. 266 00:14:11,855 --> 00:14:13,815 Speaker 2: Right, Bonnie, good morning. 267 00:14:14,375 --> 00:14:15,295 Speaker 4: Good morning, gentlemen. 268 00:14:15,375 --> 00:14:18,655 Speaker 3: How are you? We're pretty good and I'm staking on 269 00:14:18,695 --> 00:14:20,375 Speaker 3: the arf of Peter, who's pretty. 270 00:14:20,095 --> 00:14:20,335 Speaker 2: Good to. 271 00:14:22,295 --> 00:14:22,775 Speaker 4: Very good. 272 00:14:22,975 --> 00:14:27,935 Speaker 9: Yes, yes, rude. I have a situation here where my 273 00:14:28,175 --> 00:14:35,295 Speaker 9: daughter's workshop seems to have New Zealand's supply of ants 274 00:14:37,215 --> 00:14:42,215 Speaker 9: and it's not conducive to doing resin work. So how 275 00:14:42,255 --> 00:14:44,575 Speaker 9: do we get rid of these damn ants in her workshop? 276 00:14:44,655 --> 00:14:49,335 Speaker 9: It's us It was a single garage. It is a 277 00:14:49,375 --> 00:14:52,495 Speaker 9: single garage that she's converted into a workshop, and it's 278 00:14:52,575 --> 00:14:54,135 Speaker 9: a wooden structure. 279 00:14:55,335 --> 00:14:56,415 Speaker 4: Farm, rural area. 280 00:14:57,975 --> 00:14:59,775 Speaker 9: And they just keep on coming. 281 00:15:00,295 --> 00:15:03,895 Speaker 3: And is there anything that you'd think they really like 282 00:15:04,015 --> 00:15:04,335 Speaker 3: to eat? 283 00:15:06,695 --> 00:15:07,015 Speaker 8: Don't know? 284 00:15:07,295 --> 00:15:09,855 Speaker 9: They just in the well. I thought maybe we should 285 00:15:09,855 --> 00:15:10,695 Speaker 9: just try bo X. 286 00:15:13,735 --> 00:15:16,255 Speaker 3: We got this bo X thing I got, I've got 287 00:15:16,335 --> 00:15:18,735 Speaker 3: a really I've always got this. I've got this ancient 288 00:15:18,775 --> 00:15:22,135 Speaker 3: piece of paper here. This is from nineteen eighty three, 289 00:15:22,535 --> 00:15:28,135 Speaker 3: I think from mess Ye, No, when I was working 290 00:15:28,215 --> 00:15:32,615 Speaker 3: for the Ministry of Agriculture that's now called MPI, and 291 00:15:32,695 --> 00:15:35,855 Speaker 3: we had this wonderful material that we made from We 292 00:15:36,015 --> 00:15:39,615 Speaker 3: made it ourselves from box and boric acid with some 293 00:15:39,735 --> 00:15:42,215 Speaker 3: honey or sugar or and water and all that sort 294 00:15:42,215 --> 00:15:45,015 Speaker 3: of stuff. But you can also, to be quite honest, 295 00:15:45,055 --> 00:15:47,095 Speaker 3: you can do that. But you can also buy all 296 00:15:47,215 --> 00:15:51,535 Speaker 3: sorts of en baits if you like, from what you get, 297 00:15:51,575 --> 00:15:54,815 Speaker 3: for instance, called ants in your pants, that sort of stuff. 298 00:15:55,055 --> 00:15:57,935 Speaker 3: But the most important thing is that whatever you use 299 00:15:58,015 --> 00:16:00,175 Speaker 3: in terms of baits, whether you make it yourself or 300 00:16:00,255 --> 00:16:02,855 Speaker 3: buy it, you have to remember that ants have got 301 00:16:02,895 --> 00:16:06,215 Speaker 3: a territory. That means that they have maybe a tw 302 00:16:06,295 --> 00:16:10,055 Speaker 3: twenty meters square or ten meters square sometimes five meters 303 00:16:10,095 --> 00:16:13,095 Speaker 3: square territory. So that if you put baits down, you 304 00:16:13,215 --> 00:16:17,055 Speaker 3: have to put many baits down in various different distances 305 00:16:17,135 --> 00:16:19,815 Speaker 3: from each other, so that the others get something to 306 00:16:19,895 --> 00:16:22,615 Speaker 3: eat as well, you know what I mean. So if 307 00:16:22,615 --> 00:16:26,375 Speaker 3: you've got all these different colonies, they all want their 308 00:16:26,495 --> 00:16:29,055 Speaker 3: own spot where they where they feed and where they 309 00:16:29,135 --> 00:16:34,255 Speaker 3: get these particular materials from you, all these baits, but 310 00:16:34,375 --> 00:16:37,175 Speaker 3: you'll have to have them separated from each other. 311 00:16:38,335 --> 00:16:42,135 Speaker 9: Yeah, And is there anything to put around the perimeter 312 00:16:42,255 --> 00:16:45,015 Speaker 9: on the outside, you know, like or just put the 313 00:16:45,055 --> 00:16:47,375 Speaker 9: baits all separate more around. 314 00:16:47,095 --> 00:16:49,495 Speaker 3: The edge the baits. What you do with the baits 315 00:16:49,615 --> 00:16:53,135 Speaker 3: is basically you get the ants themselves to take the 316 00:16:53,215 --> 00:16:54,935 Speaker 3: bait back to the nest and they feed it to 317 00:16:55,055 --> 00:16:58,215 Speaker 3: the queen. The queen dies, no more young ones down, more. 318 00:16:58,135 --> 00:17:03,615 Speaker 9: Eggs, boom, yep, yep, do the go, wait and forget. 319 00:17:04,175 --> 00:17:05,695 Speaker 3: Ever got, Well, you can try to wait and forget. 320 00:17:06,335 --> 00:17:06,495 Speaker 4: Said. 321 00:17:06,495 --> 00:17:09,415 Speaker 3: There's lots of stuff. You know, it's really it's really 322 00:17:09,495 --> 00:17:14,495 Speaker 3: all over the show. So yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh yeah, no, 323 00:17:14,575 --> 00:17:17,255 Speaker 3: I know they can be so ants in your pants 324 00:17:17,295 --> 00:17:19,975 Speaker 3: as they call it. I always like that that particular word. 325 00:17:20,095 --> 00:17:20,855 Speaker 3: But anyway, there you go. 326 00:17:21,695 --> 00:17:26,255 Speaker 2: Good luck with that, by take care and Ian, good morning, 327 00:17:27,175 --> 00:17:28,175 Speaker 2: morning morning. 328 00:17:28,495 --> 00:17:29,175 Speaker 3: I'm rude. 329 00:17:29,815 --> 00:17:33,375 Speaker 5: I'm in Kiban and last year we had a heap 330 00:17:33,495 --> 00:17:37,655 Speaker 5: of caterpillars, but this year that the monks are laying 331 00:17:37,695 --> 00:17:40,895 Speaker 5: the eggs, but there's no caterpillars. And our friends are 332 00:17:40,935 --> 00:17:41,735 Speaker 5: saying the same. 333 00:17:43,535 --> 00:17:47,175 Speaker 3: Oh, I don't see the biggest thing that I hear 334 00:17:47,255 --> 00:17:50,535 Speaker 3: from Jackie Knight, who's the person that runs the Monarch 335 00:17:50,615 --> 00:17:53,735 Speaker 3: Butterfly Trust, it's now called the Moths and Butterfly Trust 336 00:17:53,815 --> 00:17:56,815 Speaker 3: of New Zealand. We hear from a lot of different 337 00:17:56,935 --> 00:17:59,535 Speaker 3: areas in New Zealand that the monarchs are not doing 338 00:17:59,615 --> 00:18:03,295 Speaker 3: too well, which is quite quite you know, unusual. We 339 00:18:03,415 --> 00:18:06,575 Speaker 3: normally have them. I've seen them at home, the old one. 340 00:18:06,655 --> 00:18:08,815 Speaker 3: It's not as bad as good as last year. I 341 00:18:08,935 --> 00:18:13,815 Speaker 3: totally agree whether or not the eggs that you find 342 00:18:13,975 --> 00:18:16,575 Speaker 3: on the swamp plants are actually the eggs of the 343 00:18:16,655 --> 00:18:19,415 Speaker 3: monarch butterfly. Are they the white ones or are they 344 00:18:19,495 --> 00:18:21,175 Speaker 3: the yellow ones we earlier discussed. 345 00:18:22,135 --> 00:18:27,775 Speaker 5: I'm not too sure the wife's department. But the monarchs 346 00:18:27,815 --> 00:18:33,975 Speaker 5: are going laying and there's heaps of what's that little 347 00:18:34,015 --> 00:18:36,375 Speaker 5: bug thing that's on the plants. The plants are really 348 00:18:36,535 --> 00:18:37,215 Speaker 5: healthy and. 349 00:18:37,335 --> 00:18:40,255 Speaker 3: Heaps of plant you've got you may have got a 350 00:18:40,295 --> 00:18:44,015 Speaker 3: lot of aphis on that plant before. Yeah, okay, I 351 00:18:44,095 --> 00:18:48,455 Speaker 3: would get rid of the aphids by finger control, you know, squashing. 352 00:18:48,975 --> 00:18:52,735 Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, and that would that would actually give the 353 00:18:53,095 --> 00:18:56,055 Speaker 3: the caterpillars of the of the monarchs a much better 354 00:18:56,095 --> 00:18:59,655 Speaker 3: place to eat and easier to eat. That's number one. 355 00:19:00,335 --> 00:19:04,255 Speaker 3: But otherwise, good luck with that. Yeah, you're lucky very 356 00:19:04,335 --> 00:19:06,215 Speaker 3: much for that made But. 357 00:19:07,175 --> 00:19:09,415 Speaker 2: It's quite an entertaining sort of evening. Isn't it just 358 00:19:09,575 --> 00:19:13,895 Speaker 2: wandering about the swan plants protecting caterpillars. Yeah, it's right, 359 00:19:14,215 --> 00:19:18,135 Speaker 2: it's absolutely as always, it's been a pleasure. 360 00:19:18,615 --> 00:19:20,695 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's good fun. Do it again? Eight? 361 00:19:21,095 --> 00:19:21,815 Speaker 9: Is it now? 362 00:19:22,055 --> 00:19:23,935 Speaker 2: Just to wind you up before you go? Is today 363 00:19:23,975 --> 00:19:25,895 Speaker 2: the first of March? The beginning of autumn? 364 00:19:26,415 --> 00:19:30,335 Speaker 3: You know, you know, bigger than there. Get out of here, have. 365 00:19:30,415 --> 00:19:30,975 Speaker 7: A great week. 366 00:19:31,615 --> 00:19:36,055 Speaker 2: We'll talk later. It's s low hanging fruit. It's just 367 00:19:36,215 --> 00:19:39,255 Speaker 2: it's too good, too good, too many opportunities there. Have 368 00:19:39,375 --> 00:19:41,495 Speaker 2: a fantastic week. It is the first of March, and 369 00:19:41,535 --> 00:19:44,375 Speaker 2: I'll be back next Sunday. Look forward to it. Take care. 370 00:19:51,255 --> 00:19:54,175 Speaker 1: For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp. 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