Talk:Richardson's Ground Squirrel
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Back in January 2005, user:Big Iron added the following:
- "Farmers and ranchers have developed some ingenious ways of exterminating the gopher from their land in additon to normal shooting and poisoning. One enterprising farmer recently used a large sewage vacuum truck with which he sucked the beasts up out of their dens and into the tank. Another, more unfeeling person, used propane. He built a propane supply pipe with an electical sparker at the end. He would poke the pipe into a hole, exhaust some propane into the den and then hit the spark, with the expected results. In the end, the procreative drives in the gophers always win out."
There are lots of small animals that get called gophers (see Geomyidae). Do we know that the victims of these extreme measures were indeed Spermophilus richardsonii? seglea 20:09, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Actually, the content was already there. I didn't alter it; I only moved it above the stub template. I obviously didn't read it very closely either. You may wish to contact User:George825. --Big_Iron 21:29, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- There is also Talk:Richardson's Ground Squirrel/Other by the same user. --Big_Iron 21:33, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
In reference to question from User:Seglea I can personally vouch that the propane method has been used on Richardson's ground squirrels. The other day, an East Grand Forks, Minn., exterminator (Pest Detectives, if you're curious) was using a product called Rodex 5000 on some flickertails that was tearing up a public park. I watched him myself. Fascinating the inventions that make it to market. He said it's also useful for getting rid of other burrowing animals, such as pocket gophers, but he was definitely after flickertails that day. Hope this helps. -- Tuey 20:51, 29 Jul 2005 (UTC)
