Florida Wildlife Control & Animal Pest Removal

Opossum Repellents

While opossums are not typically soup setting to a yard as several other wildlife, seeing them within the region can be distressing, as they could grow very large. These pouched mammals are meat eaters, so they are just equally happy consuming garden veggies, pet left outside homes or garbage left inside an open can during the night. Instead of harming these possums, inhibiting their attendance around plants in the garden through the use of repellents would lead them towards foraging elsewhere. Natural opossum repellent techniques are harmless to animals and plants. Several approaches may be utilized or mixed for greater effectiveness. You can easily buy Florida possum repellent online or in stores. In fact, you can even make your own repellent! Here are some examples:





Garlic spray
This is a repellent that touches on both smell and taste. Simply place 30 grams of freshly minced garlic in a liter of warm water. Add 30 grams of newly crushed hot chili, stir and allow it to infuse overnight. The next day, you may spray it on the foliage. It is suggested that this be done bimonthly and after each time it rains.

Hot foodstuff
Spicy mixes also work as Florida opossum repellents, as well as work finely in keeping away other plot eaters, like squirrels and rabbits. Mixing garden fresh bits of garlic in water, besides spraying it around the garden, helps maintain possums off the area. Hot sauce or peppers mixed together with a bit of dish soap and water, once applied on the plants will repel the opossum with its taste.

Indonesian fish sauce taste repellent
Place a tablespoon of patis or fish sauce inside a liter of water. Then, spray the mixture on the plant leaves.

Molasses
220 grams of molasses mingled and dispersed in 4 ¼ cups of water provides a feasible possum repellent. This is especially true on Florida possums that are attracted to green garden plants. A spray of dish soap fluid in the mixture helps the blend to stick on plant foliage. This combination, sprayed on the fresh greenery growth, holds back possums from chewing on the vegetation.

Mothballs
Mothballs, intended to drive away moths from munching stored fabric, are likewise disagreeable to opossums. Fragrant naphthalene minerals are finest for boosting possums towards evacuating a closed area, like underneath the porch or inside a crawlspace.

Quassia pieces
Quassia, a Southern American sapling, is vended in fragmented bark mode in plant centers. This tree bark exists as an important ingredient in numerous commercial repellents for Florida possums. Just heat around four ounces of quassia chips inside almost two liters of water above low fire for 60 minutes or more like making soup or tea.Afterwards, strain the mix into a spray bottle while adding some dish washing soap. Then, spray the mixture to the young leaves of plants to hold back the possums.

Sprinkler
Technology participates in being a repellent for Florida opossums. Being nocturnal, they do their activities in the evening, which is the reason we frequently do not see them. A sprinkler activated by motion can sense prowling opossums and surprises them through an unanticipated stream of water.

Tea-based taste deterrent
Boil water of around two liters, add Lapsang Souchong tea of around 60 grams, and leave the blend to chill at room temperature or inside the fridge. Then, strain the liquid, as well as apply directly on plants using a plastic squirt bottle. Reapply after every 14 days and after whenever it rains. Make sure to use a newly brewed mixture each time. Take note that Florida possum repellents work by way of two senses, specifically, taste and smell. Furthermore, some of these repellents stay designed towards repelling for their feel in the mouth. Many ingredients have been utilized in the likelihood that they stop opossums from eating plants in the garden. Sadly, there still is no definitive successful, general repellent that would consistently discourage possums from munching on plants.Others assert that they had tried all suggested repellents, but nothing stopped their vegetation from being consumed by possums.

In fact a study was conducted at the Deakin University on 14 unproven Florida opossum repellents. It disclosed that when hungry opossums attack the plants with the repellents, none of the taste repellents stopped the possums. On the other hand, half of the odor repellents seem to hold some validity. It was also noted that compounds dissolved in water remain likely towards being removed through rain, and therefore, requires reapplication after the rain. And just as a precautionary measure, it is sensible to try-out any product on a tiny plant part, to ensure no possible damage may occur to the vegetation, before spreading it over generally.

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