Coyotes got to die

[bigjohn]

Ran my beagles this morning on a conservation area that they've been doing some burning. This has created some patchy weed patches that normally is so thick you can't walk through it.

At about 30 minutes of running a rabbit a couple hundred yards across the field in the timber line, at least two coyotes started giving challenge barks and howls. I had this same thing happen a few years back,in the same spot,and the coyote would shadow the dogs almost every time running there. Went back a couple weeks later and called in and killed the coyote. No more problems till today.

I normally trap the ground around this area but with no coyote market the last couple of years I haven't bothered them, until today. Went back out and made two sets where they cross private ground into the area.

[krank]

One of my buddies kids sent me a bunch of pictures. He invested in thermal imaging with an infrared scope. He is shooting an AR with a suppressor. He is racking up 7 or 8 yotes a night. He runs his caller and scans with the thermal imaging. Goes for the kill with the infrared scope.
Need the thermal imagining to tell a dog from a yote. A cheap one you cant tell. I found the thermal and the infrared on Amazon and they are affordable. The silencer is the kicker as there is a long wait on the Federal paperwork.
A couple years ago, the MDC made a law allowing thermal. Still illegal to spotlight.

[bigjohn]

Much easier and cheaper for me to just trap krank lol Usually mushroom hunters on this place and that moves the coyotes out during the daylight hours. This year it's just too dry for them.

[ozarkmountainman]

While studying at CMSU to be a biologist (yeah, I got over it) I was blown away by a crazy thing that happens to coyotes. It's called "compensatory reproductive response". What it means simply is that if a 'yote population starts to shrink, i.e. via harvesting or disease, then the females just have more babies. Kind of depressing.

Coyotes and Cockroaches. When it's done that's all that will be left.

Dale

[farmnhunt]

Nice thing about a bunch of young coyotes, even I can catch a few.

[segsarge]

Haven't heard the coyotes here by the house for a while. I'm sure they're still there, just haven't heard them.

[bigjohn]

Success! Big rough looking male and just in time too. The farmer is going to work that ground today ahead of the supposed rain this weekend. With this one out of the way and predicted rain, the mushroom hunters will be filing in and hopefully cause the coyotes to leave the area.

[krank]

Native Americans believed that yotes would be the last creature left. I used to check out a library book that was huge. It was published by the USDA and it was very informative.It was everything about the coyote. Numbers from reports and studies and instructions on trapping and cyanide bombs. Reports on bounty success. Reports on stomach contents revealed lots of bugs and pop bottle lids and plants in addition to hair and wool.
I had to laugh. This book was done back in the 1950s and today it is like they never attacked the coyote population.
I think man makes his own mess because there used to be very few coyotes and many red wolves. No such thing as a coyote East of the Mississippi. We did something to make them spread.

[bigjohn]

Increased interest in stocking running pens with coyotes helped in a big way of populating the southeast with coyotes. Many thousands of coyotes from different parts of the country ended up going there and as coyotes do,escaped. Doesn't take Mother Nature long to fill in niches in the environment suitable for such.

[krank]

John-You are right that it is easier and cheaper to trap coyotes. I just think the night vision thing would be a blast.
Yes, running penned coyotes is how they got started back East. Kinda like penned hogs getting loose.
That makes them an invasive species.
Studying plants and insects, there are many many invasive species. That purple stuff all over crop ground right now is invasive. Bees are getting wiped out by an African hive beetle. MDOT is raising a record crop of theesal which is a new thistle.

[bigjohn]

We have several guys around here that use thermals ,just not something I'd be willing to sink that much in. If I didn't think I could trap them I might considered it.

MoDot and MDC are both responsible for some of the invasive stuff. MoDot use to plant crown vetch on slopes and now it's on the invasive list. MDC was responsible for multiflora rose and autumn olive.

[krank]

I was just cutting multiflora rose this weekend. I got all scratched up and bloody. Went back to the house and got the tractor. Used the bucket to scrape it off to the dirt and piled it and burned it.
That teasel is getting really bad and MDOT wont even mow it. Taxpayer already paid for it to be mowed.
How about that blasted lespedeza the MDOC introduced?. Nothing will eat it and it is a noxious weed.

[mmaxwell]

Had an explosion of hive beetles here, so far it looks like my bees have got them under control, hoping it stays that way.

[krank]

Bees cant harm a hive beetle. Beetles have a hard shell and theres nothing a bee can do to them. A bee can throw a beetle out of the hive only for them to return. Small hive beetles can fly also. The hive beetles even mimic a sound of a bee so the worker bees feed them. They defecate in the honeycomb. I use traps with bait that they fall in and cant get out of. Also beware that the beetles lay eggs in the dirt around the hive and larvae pupate in the soil so we have to pollute the dirt with pyrenthans. I have even opened the hive and sucked them out with a shop vac. They are truly devils straight out of hell. They came from Africa in fruit.

[bigbob]

A LOT of our modern troubles have come from Africa!