Rats vs rats

Shirley Meneice samclan@redshift.com
Thu, 02 Sep 2004 21:19:31 PDT
Tom, guess what?  Rats in Pebble Beach ate large quantities of new 
Camellias from Nuccio's in one night and made off with my aluminum name 
tags.  Found them in their nest in the woodpile a day later.  The rats 
are no longer with us!  Neither are two of the Camellias.
       Shirley Meneice

Thomas Glavich wrote:

>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!
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>Tom
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>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.
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>Are there any bulbs particularly affected by rodents? and are there 
>any particularly untasty?
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>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.
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>>As a resident of Altadena, just north of Pasadena.
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>>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.
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>>We still have the sparrows, and in more recent times large flock of 
>>ferral parrots, screeching through the morning sky.
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>>Tom
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