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 -- susan, who is..... 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 susanann@sbcglobal.net, copyright 2004 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php