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I am just about ready to try my hand at Coqui trapping. I have assembled enough traps to experiment with, now all I need are a few properties on which to begin my 'retraining'.
What I am looking for:
3 Properties, preferably 1 acre each;
1 Should be lightly populated by coqui, 1should be moderately infested, and 1 should be downright poluted with the lil buggers.
What I require:
Permision to be on/come and go, as required (24/7), the property. (I WILL be >quietly< active all night some nights. Learning the ways of a diurnal creature requires diurnal study. If I sit silently staring and listening, please do not disturb.)
A 4' x 10' (or aproximate equivalent) covered, dry, secure space in which to sleep and store my things, for up to 2 weeks, per property. (Space in a carport or on a lanai, a couch, etc...)
A place to prepare my meals. (Access to kitchen, a firepit and grill screen + fuel, a 'coleman' type stove or equiv. + fuel, etc...)
A place to dispose of my meals. (Access to bathroom, a bucket in the brush, etc...)
A place to plug in my phone and recharging battery pack as required.
Transportation to property at beginning of, and back home at end of, agreed upon testing period.
$10 per coqui trapped, up to, but not to exceed, $50 per day. (Negotiable, may accept partial trade for items of need, things/materials of desire, etc.) (I would offer to do it for free while I develop this new tradeskill, but I now have a dog to feed and personal needs.)
Dog freindly properties which will allow me to bring him along will recieve more favorable consideration.
What you get:
Rid of some coqui!
Rid of some eggs! (Fewer coqui later!)
To meet me!
Discuss as you will in open forum, but please reply with interest in DM (Direct Message feature), with information on what level of each requirement available (light coqui, couch, kitchen, bucket, no dog, poss. trades, etc.). I will be considering offers for approximately 2 weeks before making first selection. (Today's date 3-23-2015)
I don't know, this seems to not really be in the land owners favor at all. First the land owner has to pay you to study how to trap the little buggers by providing free room and board and free taxis services from and to the property just so that he can then pay you ten bucks a frog once you learn how to trap them?
There are a couple of properties in Waiohinu that are already infested. Just stand at the intersection of Highway 11 and Kamaoa Road at night and you'll hear them. Maybe you then go over to Wong Yuen store across the street and ask if they know who owns the property. Perhaps you could then squat on the property in exchange for getting rid of the frogs. However, since the owners have done nothing about the frogs, I seriously doubt that they care.
Rex, you are nuts! If this post was serious, you need help...in more way than you think. You want boarding and transportation and get paid for getting them?! Me too!!!
How about writing a grant and getting someone else to cough up the cash? Most folks aren't gonna have that amount of extra cash or want a house guest for two weeks. We usually get tired of ours in about half that amount of time and having to pay someone to stay longer than that - well.
Paying per frog isn't gonna do enough to help unless it is a very, very light infestation at the very beginning. You can delay their progress into your neighborhood and if the neighborhood is vigilant, keep them out, but paying a buck a frog isn't sustainable or gonna do much unless it is a property with less than a dozen frogs.
People can't contain this plague of frogs. We need that frog virus they had down in Australia, although from what I've heard the virus is already in the frog population here and it hasn't slowed them much. Chickens will eat some of the frogs, but then you get crowing roosters which aren't much - if any better, although they are at least edible, well, sort of anyway. Perhaps big Jackson chameleons can eat the small coqui but I don't know if that works or not.
Trapping coqui only works if someone empties the traps? Perhaps you could figure out a way to trap them where they couldn't get back out of the trap? We do that with cockroaches. Take an old peanut butter jar, wipe Vaseline around the inside rim of the jar and put something cockroaches like in the bottom of the jar. Cockroaches go in, can't get out and you end up with a jar full of cockroaches. Oh frabjalous joy, eh?
Come on, give the guy a break.
He clearly made a mistake and posted this 8 days early!
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