bloody rats

RATS? 😯 they eat your palms?????

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Maybe a pellet gun? or a very large cat?

Barb

Thanks Barb, I had haven asked my numerous cats help me (they do eat rats...) but it didn't help. Have to take these plants out there. Tomorrow...

here's my vole tunnels...............or I think they are voles?

Looks like voles to me. We had so many one year you could not walk down the sidewalk without stepping on them. 😡

Aaron, did they chew off any of your yucca roots/leaves like they did with Bryce's?
Look what they did to his y.gloriosa.

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Barb

Aaron, did they chew off any of your yucca roots/leaves like they did with Bryce's?
Look what they did to his y.gloriosa.

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Barb

Yes, a few! But the things the ate the most of were cactus and other plants, even small junipers trees. Then when everything else was ate, they started to eat the base of trees or climbing into trees to eat the bark off limbs, and they are not climbers. You ever see that video of the mice infestation in Australia, Yep...it was like that. 😡

Wow, never knew a plague of voles could do that.

Did the coyote/cat/hawks finally get them?
Or did you poison them?

Barb

Wow, never knew a plague of voles could do that.

Did the coyote/cat/hawks finally get them?
Or did you poison them?

Barb

They just kind of died off. Even though people poisoned, water traped, stomped them they just kept going, by fall most were gone and very few in the spring. Nature seem to have a way of contorlling things.
Three times we have had explosions, but the first was the worst. The newspaper interviewed me for the article. That fallowing year we had more than our normal numbers of rattlesnakes. 😆
Two above normal years of rain in a row=extra food=high birth rate=to many voles. 😡

Nature DOES seem to work things out...but it's about a year later.

i.e. why couldn't the rattlesnakes and hawks and owls get the VOLES before they eat your plants. ??? 😆 😆

Did you post that newspaper article on your blog?
I don't think I've seen that story.

Re explosions, years ago saw a show on mouse explosion in NewMex after several years of heavy rainfall and lots of lush new grass growing.
Followed by the devastating Hanta Virus that spread into people's lungs when they inhaled swept/dust mouse droppings.

Bryce is probably out buying a cannon to aim at his garden...

Barb

Did you post that newspaper article on your blog?
I don't think I've seen that story.

Bryce is probably out buying a cannon to aim at his garden...

Barb

That newspaper article came out before my blog, I dont think I read it, but the guys at work always read to me when ever I get in the news. 😆

Bryce should try "prozap" mole and gopher killer. It is a zinc base pellet. A zinc base pellet is what the BLM used to drop over the wildlands here. Just put it by the holes, works good! Or place it under a piece of plywood. 😉

guys at work always read to me when ever I get in the news

Cool!

Wow...bet the BLM poisoned a lot of birds in those days. 😥

This may be of interest:
http://www.volecontrol.com/

Barb

This is what I meant to post...photos of what damage is caused by what rodent.

http://www.volecontrol.com/gophers.html

Wow...bet the BLM poisoned a lot of birds in those days. 😥

Barb

I wondered about that myself, they said something like it wouldn't hurt the birds or second hand animals eating the dead voles? Must of been ok? 😕

This is what I meant to post...photos of what damage is caused by what rodent.

http://www.volecontrol.com/gophers.html

Thanks Barb. 😀

I got VOLES! 😥

Mouse traps will work, Tim.
Yummy peanut butter...two for you, one for the vole trap.

Just like with beer and wasps. :drunken:

Barb