[wxqc] OT musing (wasRe: Req for suggestions - wasps and rain gauges)

[Victor Engel]

How about installing 1/4 hardware cloth across the bottom?

On 6/4/07, Gerry Creager <gerry.creager at tamu.edu> wrote:
> I've always wondered if, in a weighing gauge, the mass of wasps and
> nests was considered valid accumulation?  ;-)
>
> Wasps are a hazard around tipping buckets, as many have discovered.
> They're also problemmatical around towers that harbor radio antennas for
> reasons I've not had satisfactorily explained to me.  That said, I
> suspect I should ask our Entomology department.  While I'm at it, I'll
> ask if they have any ideas about this...
>
> gerry
>
> Steve Hatchett wrote:
> > You have to be careful because some insecticides may react with the parts in
> > the weather equipments. I have not tried this, but I think it would work if
> > you put a single moth ball in the gauge tucked in a corner where it would
> > not get wet.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Patrick R. Sklenar [mailto:pat at sklenar.info]
> > Sent: 06/04/2007 5:55 AM
> > To: Discussion of weather data quality issues
> > Subject: [wxqc] Req for suggestions - wasps and rain gauges
> >
> > Got up this morning to discover I've had no rain in the past 24 hours
> > ... interesting considering the pop-up t-storms of yesterday afternoon
> > and the arrival of the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry over night.
> > 0.00" rain seemed a tad ... unlikely.  especially considering how wet
> > everything is and the fact that I could see rain hitting the surfaces.
> > :(  grabbed a stool, went out, got up on the stool, removed the funnel
> > ... wasps!  argh!!  three small nests.  two up in the outter edges of
> > the funnel ... no impact to anything.  but the third one ... was built
> > on the base and was actually blocking the tipping bucket. <sigh>
> >
> > the nests are gone.  the tipping bucket is now working.  but has anyone
> > found anything that really does repel the wasps?  anything i could put
> > in, under or around the bucket that won't prevent proper functioning?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > pat----
> > N1PRS-9
> > (AR651)
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