Subject: Re: Koolaid honker apotropaic?
Date: Mar 24 11:04:39 1995
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu


>Tweets:
>
>Dig this item, which was forwarded from the knitting list (you think WE
>have irrelevant topics sometimes??):
>
>Irene
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
>Arlene posted a comment about geese invading her territory. Ihave read that
>there is something in presweetened grape Kool-aid that the geese do not like.
> People are mixing it up and diluting it (they didn't say how much) and
>spraying it on there lawns. The honkers stay away. until rain washes it off.

Irene, you had better follow up on this for a lucrative contract with the
Seattle Parks department. Then you could go on to starling control! Find
out if lime Koolaid works, then it won't stain the lawns....

Dennis Paulson, Director phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416