Hi Brian: Why not to bait the traps with a label, then? All the best Alberto > >I am using a "rodent bait" that uses a "digestion disrupter" as the >active ingredient. Not sure what that is, but Plaster of Paris would >seem to serve the same purpose. It seemed to be their favourite food, >for about 3 days, now little disappears and the spring traps catch 5 or >so mice a week. As we in the UK are reintroducing Red Kites I am trying >to encourage them by throwing the corpses on the lawn, but although they >disappear I suspect it is the magpies that take them. I find mice eating >the young narcissus growth as much a problem as the crocus bulbs, which >they really only go for in dry surface soil pots. Grit/gravel covered >and damp, they usually ignore, at least until growth shows on the >surface. The open ground is never dry in winter. > >My main problem at present is a wild rabbit they sneaks in and mows off >young grasses, sedges, liriope, ipheon, tulips, and I suspect it took >all the Chadd's Ford spiranthes by the way it was decapitated. I am >trying a live trap, but what is more enticing to a rabbit than anything >with a label in a pot? I am trying not to think of what it is going to >do to the spring growth, and can't decide whether to keep it out, or in >and trap it. I have no aversion to lead poisoning, but I am in a small >garden surrounded by houses and need to do it discretely, and silently. > >Brian Whyer, Buckinghamshire, England, zone ~8 >Frosty nights, but 1st butterfly of "spring" seen yesterday. _________________________________________________________________ Las mejores tiendas, los precios mas bajos, entregas en todo el mundo, YupiMSN Compras: http://latam.msn.com/compras/