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Conference 7.286::pet_birds

Title:Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN!
Notice:INTROS 6.X / FOR SALE 13.X / Buying a Bird 900.*
Moderator:VIDEO::PULSIFER
Created:Mon Oct 10 1988
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:942
Total number of notes:6016

209.0. "Buddy the Hunter" by GIAENG::PULSIFER (Doug Pulsifer 296-3332) Wed Jun 28 1989 11:54

    Hi , 
                                                   
    With all the  damp weather Mosquitoes and other insects are making
    their way into my house. When I have Buddie the budgie out, he loves to
    attack, kill and try to eat any flying insect he sees. I have been
    stopping him from eating them. Would it hurt him to eat Mosquitos ? 
                                                 
    He half killed a small wasp the other day before I could stop him, but
    I got that away fast before he got stung. 


    Doug
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209.1what a hunterGIAMEM::LEWISTue Aug 01 1989 14:414
    Most birds will go after anything flying.  To my knowledge mosquitoes
    or flys will not hurt your little hunter.  It is a treat for him.
    
    
209.2Fruit FliesWITNES::HANNULAAt a loss for wordsTue Aug 01 1989 15:4510
    I've been having a problem with fruit flies in my house this summer.
    I feed fresh veggies every morning, with seed when I get home from
    work.  Every night, the fruit flies are around the bird cage.  Even
    though I discard the left over fruit and change the papers at the
    bottom of the cage.
    
    Unfortuneately H&G are too dumb to know that they should be eating
    the bugs.
    
    	-Nancy
209.3They make me NUTS! MAMIE::OLOUGHLINMon Aug 07 1989 16:2714
    
    
      Our house had/has a million of those little $^$%#@.
    I am not sure, but I don't think they are fruit flies.
    Some sort of gnat. They don't seem to bite but they are
    *everywhere*!
    
      Larr couldn't care less.  He just wants his nightly Avi-cake.
    
      I'm in Amherst New Hampshire, anyone else have these things?
    Anyone really know what they are?
    
      Rick.
    
209.4Nature's pest removerSUCCES::AMESThu Nov 16 1989 21:0712
    We've had some succes with using Venus fly-traps! Two small plants
    that you can get in any supermarket plant place seem to do the trick
    in a medium size room. They're very cheap. You have to keep them
    moist. I tried feeding them wet monkey chow when they ran out of
    fruit flies. My experience is they eventually peter out but at that
    price they're easily replaced. Just don't let the birds get them.
    I'm not so sure they're poisonous but I don't want to find out the
    hard way. 
    
    Good luck,
    
    Lianne and Pere Ubu (my yellow crowned amazon)