[wisb] Re: BB help in Waukesha Co.; Answered By Kent Hall
- From: "Kent" <kentsue@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <kmjrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "John Stuckert" <jstuckert4@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 18:22:21 -0600
Hi, John, et al.
We don't worry about them on the Audubon Bluebird Trail in
central Wisconsin. After raising 19,000 bluebirds in the past
8 years, we would surely have seen mortality due to these
blood-sucking ectoparasites, if it was occurring.
Tom Erdman claims that a student at UW-Green Bay did
an experiment with House Sparrows in which the survival
rate was reduced in those that were parasitized by blow-
flies in the nest. Unfortunately, those data were never published.
Blow flies in our nests are seldom found until the 2nd nests
of EABL's. I don't know whether it is a matter of average
ambient temperature or not.
If you are concerned about the health of your chicks in the
nests with blowfly larvae, it is a simple matter of taking
some fine grasses or pine needs (red or white preferred),
approximating the size and shape of the nest, and transferring
the chicks to the new nest. We have done this dozens of times and never
have
had the hens reject their chicks afterwards, to my know-
ledge.
Good luck, John--will you be sending me your data at
the end of the season? If so, I will send you data sheets
if you do not already have them.
Kent D. Hall, Ph.D., Coordinator
Data Collection, Bluebird Restoration
Association of WI
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Johnson & Jim Toth" <kmjrt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <jstuckert4@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:40 PM
Subject: [wisb] Re: BB help in Waukesha Co.
> Send answer to group since a number of us monitor bb trails. Thank you!
> Karen
>
> Karen Johnson and Jim Toth
>
> Milwaukee (SE)
>
> BayView area
>
> --- On Tue, 5/18/10, John Stuckert <jstuckert4@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: John Stuckert <jstuckert4@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [wisb] BB help in Waukesha Co.
> To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 1:25 PM
>
> Hi All,
> Just wondering in I could get the word out for some advice and possible
> help.
> There is a nest box in Minooka Park one of five I've been monitoring, (I
> kind of just eusurped the trail, I never saw anyone monitor it or any
> maintenance done), since the beginning of April.
>
> I had two blowfly larva in the front of the nest about half way up that
> were exposed when I opened the front of the peterson box. In my experience
> I always found them on the very bottom. I removed them but didn't want to
> disturb the chicks. There were no larva under the nest.
>
> I'm worried that I should have completely removed the nest to check, but
> the chicks are pretty big now.
>
> If someone is near Minooka, would you like to take a look?
>
> What do YOU do to remove blowfly larva....!
>
> Regards,
>
> John Stuckert
> Pewaukee, WI
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