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It's all a matter of making you're area less pleasant than your neighbors. During a sojourn in a rural area we had racoons marauding our garbage at night - and they weren't shy or easily scared. Solution was a bit of lysol concentrate in water, which was squirted into each garbage pail followed by putting on the lid. When the raccoons popped the lid they quickly stopped coming back. Considering how it smells, I'd probably have been even more successful with Gin.
As for the large moth . . . after checking your bio I determined your best option would be to await nightfall then hide a tweezers in your hand and lay down naked on the lawn. When he lands on you, you know what to do with that tweezers.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: you know what to do with that tweezers.
Use them to pick the lock on the handcuffs?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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I'm a sunshine in the figurative sense so, unless they are gay, that is unlikely to work. 
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Maybe the lawn wolf remedy but use a water hose?
Or just get a big dog?
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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My parents hit on a neat idea, make friends with a neighbours kitten (when it's a cute fuzz ball, probably...) get it to respect your garden and house as it territory problem goes away! Down side is when said cat departs this mortal coil you start to get cats & foxes back... or my solution build an over-elaborate IR guard to soak launch a water volley ala the Vilimos answer!
Glenn
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To quote an answer to a very similar question once posed in The Guardian newsaper - "How do I stop the neighbour's cat crapping in my garden?"
The answer - concrete one or the other!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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As far as cleaning stuff they hit, normal soap and water doesn't work. Head to your local pet supply store and ask if they have any enzyme based cleaner for pet messes. Might take a wash or two but it gets the stench out.
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Thanks, I never knew such things existed.
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S u n s h i n e wrote: Anyone here remember the lawn wolf? I salute your memory if you do.
Something that was brought up by JSOP, I think, about the 'lone wolf' terrorist meme being spread by the mass media. I forget the details.
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  (that's the nearest approximation to a salute in CP smileys)
...and to Mike Hankey too
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... A morbid fear of memory sticks? Ramaphobia sounds religionish.
It's weird: "Hey, sure! You can log on to our wifi and get complete RWX access to every file and database on our servers!", but "Oh God, NO! Keep that memory stick away from me, Please!"
I wonder if these people also refuse to open any web page at all, or any e-mail from anyone, anywhere, too.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: A morbid fear of memory sticks?
"Overacting".
Mark_Wallace wrote: I wonder if these people also refuse to open any web page at all,
Nee, since the webpage hasn't been anywhere physically. It's not drowning in germs.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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The more pressing question is to which orifice they are going to be attached! 
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I would go for Mnemonobaccillophobia
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Mark_Wallace wrote: A morbid fear of memory sticks
Sandiskophobia ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I forgot my Cpday yesterday. But I've put up with seven years of you elephants wasting my time. No stop it, I really must do some work.
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That gin doesn't drink itself. Congratulations Nagster.
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Congratulations!
This "work" of which you speak: does it involve a Bottle of some form? Plus Ice and a Slice?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You know how gin-and-tonic was invented, don't you?
Tonic water (quinine) was the standard treatment for malaria in the colonial days. Quinine of course is bitter and so gin was added to make the medicine palatable.
With gin-and-tonic, one is able to screw oneself and malaria at the same time.
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Today, and yesterday, I am actually doing some real honest-to-God paid work. Rare, but it does happen.
And I'm drinking coffee*
* it's a bit too early for gin.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: * it's a bit too early for gin.
Where is Nagy Vilmos and what have you done with him?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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If he really was consuming that much gin and tonic, I would have no other choice than to call him a trouble sh**tter. 
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I never have more than one gin...
... at a time.
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