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Originally Posted by mrich61
THANK YOU ALL FOR your suggestions.....I will be pulling out my grapefruit tree and replacing it with a bottlebrush....ALSO, I should have shared the Villages is already "OVER pesticidal" and an offer like Dean's to treat with traps and pour liquid insecticide around my house every 3 months is a DEAL BREAKER.....rats don't cause cancer.....pesticides do and my Company is Alliance who uses environmental treatments.....they also wanted $400 to do this....I will be going the route with the alternate traps....THANKS ALL!!
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Bottlebrush will attract large numbers of bees. They can become pesky. Twice I had large swarms of bees form feral bee hives in my back yard; once in a homemade screech owl nest, and once in a tree.
Feral bee hives are at greater risk to have "Africanized" (killer) bees. Also, are you sure that none of your potential guests, like grandchildren, are not sensitive to bee stings. I have one son who can go into anaphylactic shock if stung by a bee.
A note to my friend Graciegirl: I have been feeding birds with TWO bird feeders and a birdbath in my back yard for over 30 years. The only time I ever had rats in my yard was when they came up from a nearby swamp area to eat the tomatoes I was growing in the yard. I quit growing tomatoes.
I'll admit that I had to take measures to keep squirrels off of the feeders, but I also accomplished that with a very simple measure. I continue to enjoy a variety of birds at my two feeders in the back yard.