I had a few squares of bees wax in my garage shop, but when I looked for them, they seem to have vanished completely, even the one on the lathe. There are also mice in the garage, so I wonder if they eat the stuff. Anyone know about this?

Thanks,

Mike

Michael wrote in
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I had a few squares of bees wax in my garage shop, but when I looked
for them, they seem to have vanished completely, even the one on the
lathe. There are also mice in the garage, so I wonder if they eat the
stuff. Anyone know about this?

My brother in law keeps bees, and I'm pretty sure he's told
me that mice will eat the comb if they can get into a hive.

John

On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 13:49:01 -0700 (PDT)
Michael wrote:

stuff. Anyone know about this?

get a cat
get more bees wax

observe


make sure it is a meat eating cat and not these metro sexual cats
that are afraid of rats

i mention rats because that is more likely your problem

mice are mostly 2d
rats are 3d
norwegian wharf rats are 6d

On 2016-07-30, Electric Comet wrote:

get a cat
get more bees wax

make sure it is a meat eating cat and not these metro sexual cats
that are afraid of rats

LOL!.....

On Saturday, 30 July 2016 21:49:18 UTC+1, Michael wrote:
I had a few squares of bees wax in my garage shop, but when I looked for them, they seem to have vanished completely, even the one on the lathe. There are also mice in the garage, so I wonder if they eat the stuff. Anyone know about this?

Thanks,

Mike

AFAIK, mice will eat ANY wax. You can tell mouse attacks from rat attacks by the size of the tooth marks.

On Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 2:22:54 PM UTC-5, wrote:

AFAIK, mice will eat ANY wax. You can tell mouse attacks from rat attacks by the size of the tooth marks.

I once had bar soap in the shop and mice or rats ate that, also. They ate all my garden/gardening seeds, as well.

They haven't, yet, managed to open the frig and drink the beer, though.

Sonny

On 8/1/2016 11:18 AM, Sonny wrote:
On Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 2:22:54 PM UTC-5, wrote:

AFAIK, mice will eat ANY wax. You can tell mouse attacks from rat attacks by the size of the tooth marks.

I once had bar soap in the shop and mice or rats ate that, also. They ate all my garden/gardening seeds, as well.

They haven't, yet, managed to open the frig and drink the beer, though.

Sonny


I must have rats in the shower, my bar of soap keeps getting smaller! ;~)

Tooth marks are tough to measure when they consume the entire wax package
Setting glue traps will let you know pretty quickly, They typically do not discriminate between size or species of critter...Once caught 2 live rats in the same tray...not a pleasant find, as they were both still alive...

AFAIK, mice will eat ANY wax. You can tell mouse attacks from rat attacks by the size of the tooth marks.

On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 12:22:26 PM UTC-5, wrote:

Tooth marks are tough to measure when they consume the entire wax package
Setting glue traps will let you know pretty quickly, They typically do not discriminate between size or species of critter...Once caught 2 live rats in the same tray...not a pleasant find, as they were both still alive...

AFAIK, mice will eat ANY wax. You can tell mouse attacks from rat attacks by the size of the tooth marks.

That's the thing. There is not a trace of those bars of bees wax. I'm going to build one of these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4PaGvAhV9I

Sonny wrote in
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On Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 2:22:54 PM UTC-5,
wrote:

AFAIK, mice will eat ANY wax. You can tell mouse attacks from rat
attacks by the size of the tooth marks.

I once had bar soap in the shop and mice or rats ate that, also. They
ate all my garden/gardening seeds, as well.

They haven't, yet, managed to open the frig and drink the beer,
though.

Guess I'm lucky. The only thing rats have eaten in my shop
is the extra packages of rat poison I had stored there.

Saved me the effort of putting them out where I thought the
rats were.

John

On 8/1/2016 11:18 AM, Sonny wrote:
I once had bar soap in the shop and mice or rats ate that, also. They ate all my garden/gardening seeds, as well.

Why I encourage the possums.

They haven't, yet, managed to open the frig and drink the beer, though.

The coons around here will do that without breaking a sweat.

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get a cat
get more bees wax

observe

make sure it is a meat eating cat and not these metro sexual cats
that are afraid of rats

i mention rats because that is more likely your problem

mice are mostly 2d
rats are 3d
norwegian wharf rats are 6d

Electric Comet

Norwegian wharf rats, a.k.a. brown rats.

I've seen bigger in NJ and NY. Found a super fat 2+ footer under a
trash box while cleaning out underneath. Never knew they could get so
big and fat. No one else did either. It kept three audlts and two dogs
at bay with barred teeth and snarls, then hauled ass towards the local
park. Two people walking up the street made an abrupt backup.

So I guess the rat I saw was a ??d in 4k 3D?

On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:31:19 -0400
Casper wrote:

So I guess the rat I saw was a ??d in 4k 3D?

that is a bigun
some exterminators will not deal with them they will not do it

the reference to 2d for mice was that they typically do not climb
they stay on floors and follow a wall etc

rats will readily climb so they are 3d

wharf rats also climb but nothing seems to stop them

they will chew through concrete so they go where ever they want

if you have those you need a real hunter cat or a smart dog that
has it in their breed

most urban pets would probably be killed and eaten by a wharf rat
if they did not run

On 2016-08-03, Electric Comet wrote:

if you have those you need a real hunter cat or a smart dog that
has it in their breed

I have a gun.

nb

On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 13:31:19 -0400, Casper
wrote:

get a cat
get more bees wax

observe

make sure it is a meat eating cat and not these metro sexual cats
that are afraid of rats

i mention rats because that is more likely your problem

mice are mostly 2d
rats are 3d
norwegian wharf rats are 6d

Electric Comet

Norwegian wharf rats, a.k.a. brown rats.

I've seen bigger in NJ and NY. Found a super fat 2+ footer under a
trash box while cleaning out underneath. Never knew they could get so
big and fat. No one else did either. It kept three audlts and two dogs
at bay with barred teeth and snarls, then hauled ass towards the local
park. Two people walking up the street made an abrupt backup.

So I guess the rat I saw was a ??d in 4k 3D?

One of my Co-orkers moved from NYC to "upstate" (meaning North of
Yonkers . He saw the rats we had, and told his friends back in the
old 'hood that their rats were puny. ...except that they were
opossums, in Duchess County. ;-)

On 8/3/2016 8:57 PM, wrote:

One of my Co-orkers moved from NYC to "upstate" (meaning North of
Yonkers . He saw the rats we had, and told his friends back in the
old 'hood that their rats were puny. ...except that they were
opossums, in Duchess County. ;-)

One upon a time a Vietnamese Ranger unit I was assigned to captured an
underground, unit sized, North Vietnamese bunker complex in Cambodia. It
was during the rainy season in SE Asia, and, in and attempt to stay dry,
we decided to quarter in the bunker for a few days while we regrouped
from the battle.

Only problem was the underground rats, almost as big as some of the
"pet" dogs (who followed along side of us a convenient food supply).

First night I sat, awake in my sleeping bag, with a Montagnard crossbow,
to kill them before they got to me.

One night of those rats and I decided to sleep above ground, and deal
with the cobras instead ...

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Does your wife make candles? Or ornaments? I only mentiuon that because my wife does- and I may have .... ahem... swiped her wax on occasion.

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On 30 Jul 2016 04:49 PM ,Michael wrote:
I had a few squares of bees wax in my garage shop, but when I looked for them, they seem to have vanished completely, even the one on the lathe. There are also mice in the garage, so I wonder if they eat the stuff. Anyone know about this?

Thanks,

Mike


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