Rats vs rats
Thomas Glavich (Thu, 02 Sep 2004 21:00:23 PDT)
I grow other South African plants and Cacti, and I have a real problem every year or two with rats eating Lithops and the less spiny cacti. They can devestate a collection in a single night. There is nothing worse than coming out in the morning, and seeing a bite taken out of a show plant. I have had rats eat parts of some Ornithogalum. They never seem to finish!
Tom
Susan Hayek <susanann@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
**Those rats that are really rats drive us crazy, scurrying about at night.
We've had no problems, so far, with bulbs being eaten.
We have had a problem with the bird feeding areas being hit nightly,
and I wonder about the tomatoes.
Are there any bulbs particularly affected by rodents? and are there
any particularly untasty?
We have such a bad gopher problem (Leon traps and traps; the dogs
generally have more success) that a lot of our plants are planted in
wire baskets.
As a resident of Altadena, just north of Pasadena.
Rats are Rats, and palms are notorious homes for them. Many palms
have an ugly aluminum skirt about eye height to keep the rats out.
Grey squirrels are here in abundance as well, but they don't seem to
nest in palms much. I've seen them both running across the walls
behind my house.
We still have the sparrows, and in more recent times large flock of
ferral parrots, screeching through the morning sky.
Tom
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owned by Jasper & Schubert the Standard Poodles, Gracie the
Rhodesian, Pup-Quiz the Basenji and their Basenji brother, Jones....
on the North Coast of CA, USA
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