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Other Local Resorts & Areas => Ovacik Discussion Forum => Topic started by: milliemars on June 22, 2009, 15:23:51 PM

Title: Scorpions
Post by: milliemars on June 22, 2009, 15:23:51 PM
Is there anything I can buy to stop scorpions.I know there is a powder to stop snakes coming into the grounds but hope there might be for scorpions as well.
Title: Scorpions
Post by: Old Daffodil on June 22, 2009, 15:36:31 PM
Hallo Milliemars,

We let the neighbours chickens into our garden occasionally as a precaution against scorpions. They eat them. I have only ever seen one in twenty years where I live.
Title: Scorpions
Post by: puma on June 22, 2009, 22:32:28 PM
found one in the house a few years ago ,it was dead must have been the cockie spray i used
Title: Scorpions
Post by: Scunner on June 22, 2009, 22:42:16 PM
Poor chicken
Title: Scorpions
Post by: mikrik on June 23, 2009, 20:02:49 PM
Hello Millimars
The powder which is used for snakes can also be bought with a scorpion deterrent.
There is a shop in Fethiye which is just opposite the D.I.Y shop(beside where the Citroen garage used to be) they sell all kinds of garden supplies. If you ask for snake and scorpion dust "Yilan v Akrep toz" in Turkish they will be able to help you. Just sprinkle a  thin line of it around your property and that should keep them out.
If they are already in the garden, use a torch at night to spot them in cracks etc (they have a kind of luminous glow) and then hit them with a stick.
Title: Scorpions
Post by: Scunner on June 23, 2009, 20:07:41 PM
Hard.
Title: Scorpions
Post by: Firo on June 23, 2009, 20:17:18 PM
I for one will not be looking for them in the dark  :o
Why would anyone do that[?] ;)
Fi
Title: Scorpions
Post by: milliemars on June 24, 2009, 09:30:23 AM
Thanks a lot Mikrik off down the shops today.
Title: Scorpions
Post by: pookie on June 24, 2009, 10:07:07 AM
little @uggers like our stone wall - often see them creeping around.  Have found that a good solid boot works wonders !! ;)
Title: Scorpions
Post by: starman™ on June 24, 2009, 10:56:06 AM
hair spray and a lighter works wonders too
Title: Scorpions
Post by: tribalelder on June 24, 2009, 14:17:31 PM
Barbecued Scorpions......they will never catch on.:D
Title: Scorpions
Post by: KKOB on June 24, 2009, 14:37:18 PM
But, Deep Fried, they're very nice !

http://img7.travelblog.org/Photos/16598/409320/t/3939237-Scorpions-on-a-stick-0.jpg
Title: Scorpions
Post by: Scunner on June 24, 2009, 14:41:17 PM
They show up at night under UV light don't they? That could be fun  :)
Title: Scorpions
Post by: Rindaloo on June 24, 2009, 14:48:48 PM
Catch a whole load of them, tie them by their tails to a long piece of string and drape the string high around your BBQ area, fairy light stylee.  Then have a UV light to make them show up.  What a mobile!  A real conversation piece, eh!
Title: Scorpions
Post by: milliemars on June 24, 2009, 15:25:15 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Rindaloo

Catch a whole load of them, tie them by their tails to a long piece of string and drape the string high around your BBQ area, fairy light stylee.  Then have a UV light to make them show up.  What a mobile!  A real conversation piece, eh!

Sounds so pretty.Go on who is the first to make one :)