This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The owls need wide open spaces to hunt, or they could get hit by cars.Ĭopyright 2022 Sunbeam Television Corp. With such a big appetite, these owls are truly Mother Nature’s pest control.Įxperts say never put up a barn owl box in a suburban area. You can actually identify down to species the particular rodent those barn owls have eaten.” Richard Raid: “There’s two matching mandibles from a good sized rat. Once their meal is digested, the owls spit up what they don’t need. They can hear a mouse on hard packed pavement from 100 feet away.” They come down with the force of about an 8-pound hammer. Richard Raid: “They are one of the most prodigious rodent predators in the world. This University of Florida owl cam is positioned in a nesting box and shows young owls having a meal.ĭr. You can even go online and watch the owls. We give them housing, and they control the mice.” The owls can nest there, and at night, they go out, and they hunt. Max Tucker, Vert Nature Farms: “We build these boxes. The owls are really neat because they really help us control the rats so really beneficial for us.”Īt nearby Vert Nature Farms, the acres of baby spinach and leafy salad greens are a temptation for mice and rats, but the owls keep their populations in-check. Stewart Stein, Wedgworth Farms: “On Wedgworth Farms, we have approximately 100 boxes currently, and when they nest, they’ll have three to four in a nest. With some 460,000 acres of sugar cane, sweet corn and other crops, this wide open land has become barn owl heaven. Our premise was by using the barn owl boxes, we could reduce the rates of rodenticides that were present.”Īnd it works. Richard Raid: “In the past, they relied very heavily on rodenticides, which are rat poisons. Raid started the program 20 years ago.ĭr. Richard Raid: “We now have more than 500 barn owl boxes throughout the Glades, and this number is growing every day.”ĭr. The boxes encourage the owls to live and hunt in their fields.ĭr. He works with farmers in the Everglades agricultural area to put barn owl nesting boxes on fence poles. Richard Raid is in charge of the Barn Owl Program at the University of Florida. This is what the growers are actually trying to prevent.”ĭr. Hissing is something people part of The Reptilian Brotherhood do as a way of identifying each other and a way to joke around The phrase hiss started when. Richard Raid: “This is a piece of rodent damaged sugar cane.
Richard Raid, Barn Owl Program: “A growing barn owl can eat up to one and a half times its weight in prey per day, so that means that a young barn owl, maybe 6 to 7 weeks old, will have to eat four to five rats per night.”ĭr. LeafyIsHere also provided his own explanation as to why this happened on the DramaAlert video released October 14th, 2015 (shown below, right).Dr. On October 13th, LeafyIsHere posted a response video to share his initial thoughts on the spam comments (shown below, left). Many Youtubers and Twitch Streamers have complained by tweeting to Leafy, some just poking fun and laughing at the spam, others were genuinely mad and wanting Leafy to control his fan base.
This however did not work as they expected because even the subs were in on the joke and would spam. Some Streamers would go as far as to use Sub-Mode Only in their chats, meaning their subscribers could only chat. When Streamers on Twitch would stream their chats would be flooded with "HISSSS…" and other forms of LeafyIsHere spam. It continued to grow and began to be spammed in numerous Twitch chats. Sometimes, the phrase would even turn to a form of harassment, or calling out certain YouTubers for not being as good as LeafyIsHere and saying they should be attacked or "overthrown". Comments like these were almost always in the Top Comments section, even with minimal likes. Most notably used on bigger YouTuber's videos, sometimes even beating out first. Between October 12th and 13th, the YouTube comments section was flooded with repetitive use of the Hisss, Reptilian Brotherhood, and Reptilian Army phrase.
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