British photographer Miles Herbert captured adorable harvest mice as they play in tulips, which are fragile flowers with enough strength to support them. These tiny, 2-3 inch guests can be seen scurrying up the stems using their long tails. They are released into an enclosure to play and are photographed. The field mice, also known as the wood mouse, love the smell of pollen and climb inside the flowers to eat the stamens and nectar.
The colorful blooms, despite their fragility, have enough strength to support their nesting. The field mice often hide in tulips to avoid being picked up and bopped on the head by bunny-foo-foo. Kate Bradbury explains ways to help them and how to prevent them from coming inside your house.
The term “flower beds” takes on new meaning as little harvest mice nestle up among these tulips. The colorful blooms, despite their fragility, have enough strength to support their nesting. The field mice love to eat the stamens and nectar from the flowers and enjoy climbing in and out of the tulips.
When you see a little baby all nestled and sleeping in a flower, you would spend the rest of the day taking pictures. The cute critter was captured by photographer Miles Herbert near his home in Bournemouth. Harvest mice love the smell of pollen and often climb inside the flowers to eat the stems and fall asleep after feasting, snuggled between colorful petals. Even though tulips are not so strong, their strength is just enough to contain a little harvest mouse inside them.
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I tried it, I purchased a case of the original formula Irish spring soap. I did the test, it didn’t work. Don’t take my word for it, I posted articles showing animals eating Irish Spring soap. It’s that good. That’s right, it attracts them and they eat it. 🙂 I’m amazed by this article. Woodchucks just bury it and go on. Deer sniff it and then eats the trees they are hanging from. Skunks will tear down limbs getting to the soap so they can eat it. I wish you had shown actual animals being repelled.
I had a fly problem one spring, that somehow made it’s way into my clean kitchen. My husband found an easy hack that worked immediately. Fly’s and other bugs HATE the smell of Baby Oil. The light powder scent causes the pests to leave immediately. We pour the Baby Oil on plates and within a few hours, there are dead bugs all over the plate and nothing flying around. We also rub down the countertops with the Baby Oil about once a week during the Spring and Summer and have never had the critters return. The Irish Spring Idea is awesome for outside as it would be hard to hang Baby Oil.
huh my grandparents told me about this, I’ve used Irish spring for years under furniture, under the house and in air ducts to keep spiders away I didn’t know mice didn’t like it either but to think about it I haven’t had a problem with them. They also taught me spraying a 50/50 mix of Dawn Dish washing Liquid and water with a pump-up spray bottle to your house eves, porch eves and any place you have problems with wasp or dirt dauber to prevent them from building nest. I do it once a month during the 4 months of summer in my State.
I’ve been trying to stop my neighbor’s multitude of cats, from using my garden area as their litter box, for over 3 years! I’ve used mulch & they just scrape it away. I’ve used cayenne pepper powder, but that lasts only a day or two. Moth balls don’t work at all, because the neighborhood kids always steal them! It appears that I may have finally found something that could keep those darned kitties from using my space, as their public potty! I’m so glad you shared this! Thank you!
When someone wants to explain something right they do it step-by-step so you don’t have to go back in this question cuz you want to be in a rush so I think this is a good article and I do listen to Summer and keeps away the Beatles and all kind of different things but it doesn’t keep the gnats away thank you for sharing very great
There is no way this article needed to be more than one minute. Four minutes just shows you what a poor communicator they really are. Yes I know I’m lambasting them. When you take four minutes to explain something that could be done in less than one minute sometimes people get frustrated listening to you.
Chilli powder works too better if you ask me. When they sniff around your garden it will burn their noses not hurting them just discomfort enough to go somewhere else… Works for rodents as well… They drag their genatals on the ground would you want chilli powder on you nuts or vg. Just don’t put it in your garden …only the perimeter.
Some people claim success with this method, the effectiveness of using Irish Spring soap as an insect repellent is largely anecdotal, and there isn’t substantial scientific evidence to support its use for this purpose. In my case, it seems that the presence of Irish Spring soap actually attracted wasps to your backyard, which is the opposite of the intended effect. The particular scent or ingredients in the soap acted as an attractant for the wasps in my area. When I removed the soap, the wasps left, indicating a correlation between their presence and the soap. It’s crucial to exercise caution when trying out unconventional methods for pest control. While it’s tempting to explore natural remedies, it’s always advisable to research and seek expert advice to ensure the safety of yourself.
Step one: plant greens and Timothy hay Step 2: adopt a rabbit and keep it humanely indoors Step 3: sweep rabbit poo every morning, empty litter box. Step 4: put rabbit poo in garden Step 5: feed Timothy hay to said rabbit. Step 7: congrats! Now you don’t have to buy Rabbi t feed OR fertilizer Step 8: skip step 6.
I need to try this. Our backyard is like a freeloading zone for stray cats to come chill, sleep, eat, and drink 😡 They know and smell the food we leave out for my sister’s frenchie to so they’re always coming into our backyard plus they know her dog is a scardy- cat 😑 Its getting more annoying because more and more are coming its a nightmare!!
I love the smell of Irish Spring soap. I am going to place some in my car to get rid of spiders that get in the door wells. Healthier for me than using bug spray. I also have large pump containers of liquid Irish Spring in my shower and bathtub. Bugs, snakes and rodents hate the smell of peppermint and eucalyptus.
I’ve used it for years it really works. Had a bad problem until.i read about it in a women’s magazine. .works like magic. I put in mesh bags made from fruits from the markets and old cut up pantyhose. Had a beautiful cactus rose plant it was my pride and joy was the only person to have one in our entire area. Thanks to that soap.
Irish spring has its scent from a strong smelling lavender plant which is a natural pest repellent against fleas, ticks, roaches, mice, aphids and many more pests. Peppermint plants with strong peppermint scent can also so the same thing. So you can plant strong scented peppermint in between your rows of crops. Plant strong smelling lavender around your garden area. You can get the lavender plant that is edible as well and gain added benefits from the peppermint and lavender as crops. Lavender cake with peppermint icing anyone? Watch the article to learn what else it does.
I have found a 12 gage shotgun highly effective for most distractive varmints. Mouse poison is absolutely necessary to bait the garage, attic and crawlspace. Good weatherproofing keeps most rodents from the house. Farm equipment/shed gets mothballs/ mouse bait to keep he chewers at bay. Some families chose to live with rodents, my family does not, to each their own.
Watch the company change the chemical makeup of their soap now. Fir those of you who don’t like Irish Spring and you have issues with deer. The next time you get a hair cut scatter the clippings around the edge of your yard. Not a permanent solution but it will keep them away long enough to give your grass and greens a good start.
Ya, I did this to keep bugs out of my plants, after perusal this. As I looked at the soap over a few days, I noticed something had chewed on it! Within a day or two I realized it attracted a huge wharf rat into my property. The rat also hopped in my car engine, tried to eat battery cable, and ended up shorting out my tail lights also. I don’t think I need anymore of these so called helpful tips!
What I did for my trees, was put the whole bar of soap in Cottage cheese container. Put a hole in the bar of soap, put a string thru the hole. Take cottage cheese container, turn it upside down, make a hole in the bottom. Run the string with the soap attached to it, thro the hole in the bottom. Hang on tree branch Deer Height. It keeps the soap from getting wet from rain & sun off. Can leave up for 2 yrs. I did this & my trees got to grow tall …. The soap lasts, bc it’s enclosed, but yet the deer can smell it…👍👍👍👍
ground squirrels decided that my freshly poured concrete walkway would be a nice spot to burrow under. so i put hunks of soap in the hole. they pushed it out, back in it went, back out it came……etc. i now have a large pile of rocks, boulders, bricks in front of the hole. they finally gave up & moved on.