How do animal repellents work?
December 4, 2020
Repellents generally rely on fear, conditioned avoidance, pain, or taste...or a combination of several.
Fear-inducing repellents contain compounds that emit sulfurous odors such as predator urine or faeces, animal proteins, or garlic. The avoidance of these odours can be co...
How long are these repellents effective?
October 9, 2020
Animal-protein based repellents versus Fat based repellents
Animal-protein based repellents like BANGBANG work by slowly oxidising and releasing a sulphurous odour that repels through smell as it decays. They do work, but over time will breakdown in air and sunlight which limits their effectiveness. This applies for any animal protei...
How to apply FATBANG and will it harm my trees?
October 1, 2020
No it won't harm the tree but follow these tips...
Here are the main pointers for using FATBANG...
FATBANG must be applied via a backpack spray unit due to its thick viscosity. A smaller hand-pump unit would not have the power to spray the fat.Do not use on edible crops as a coating of fat may not be palatableAlways avoid fl...
How to apply BANGBANG and will it harm my plants?
September 26, 2020
Follow these tips...
Best practice is to NOT spray when plants-trees are stressed, that goes for the application of any spray. So avoid direct sunlight, hot weather, strong winds and also when the plant has already been sprayed in the last week with any other chemical. Best to spray early m...
Are imported repellents better?
September 25, 2020
NO and here's why!
As you know kiwis are the worlds most innovative number-8-wire inventors! No-one makes electric fences better than us, and we export to the world. Yet some animal repellent products are still imported - mostly from either the USA or UK...ridiculous!
Firstly, the e...
Systemic repellents
September 25, 2020
Why these are ridiculous
Systemic sprays are designed to be absorbed by the target plant...so for systemic repellents the idea is that the plant will be sufficiently saturated with the repellent that when eaten its taste will do its work. Well that's bollocks!
Firstly, the animal has to bite and che...
Plastic tree guards?
September 25, 2020
Why these are a bad idea
You may have seen thousands of those tree guards staked-out alongside state highways, local roads and lifestyle-blocks, etc. The version that is either coir mat or some sort of recycled cardboard-fibre product are ok and do the job, although they can be expensive and cumbers...
