Great points! Let nature’s ecosystem do its thing! There’s a natural order that works! Stop trying to control everything with poisons! Live WITH nature❣️❣️❣️

LOVE any gardener who respects the ecosystem as a whole! Was so excited to see the tree frogs emerge about a month ago, still waiting for the skinks we have around! ❤ Then there’s plenty of hawks and crows, raccoons, possums, foxes, all sorts of woodland creatures in our area! Things generally take care of themselves…if it wasn’t a double cicada year lol 😂

We have a lot of cats here as I've taken strays in and had them neutered. There are some drawbacks to having cats, but I cover my pots or beds with chicken wire so they don't dig in them. But there aren't any mice or rats here anymore, though they will go into a neighbor's barn and bring a half-eaten one home. Raccoon pests are another matter.

You're right the falcons eat the rats and mice, the owls also eat the mice too! I also have 4 cats. Unfortunately, if I don't build a safe haven pile of rocks and wood the cats kill my lizards and skinks.

In my area for some reason I noticed a explosion of black racer snakes but they are aggressive I was watering my garden and plants and all of a sudden a black racer raised up it's head about 4' feet in the air it came for me so I hit water on it and gone wuwee close one!👍

I've had really good luck with the Ratinator for rats and a dunk trap for mice. Granted I have mostly local pack rats, not the Norwegian rats that seem to get out of the traps more readily.

Video is timely, I was gifted an apple tree and leaning toward not planting in the ground. Fighting these invasive bugs is full time work in my container garden.😅😊

Another great video. I have heard that Scorpions hate Lavender. A friend in Phoenix plants Lavender in front of their house to keep Scorpions out, and it works!

Thanks for the advice about roly-polys! I wasn't sure if they were beneficial or not. Also, good to know about clutter near a house attracting pests. Never knew about rats nesting in the bottom of bamboo clumps. I'm glad I got rid of the invasive running bamboo in my back wooded area in the last several years!

I can tell you from experience. I live up in Dewey Arizona. The bait poison stations do work. And if you got issues with poisoning a rat, Go live in California, they're protected there. When I moved into my property 2 and a 1/2 acres in the Bradshaw mountains.The packrats were everywhere.Traps with peanut butter and bait stations with peanut butter. work very well I had rats under my house stripping my wire. That cost hundreds of dollars an damage. Once I started employing the bait stations and the trapps in less than a month. I no longer had issues with rats. They were still there because I was still going through 3 to 4 cubes of poison every month but they were nowhere near my house. Don't give up the fight.

The Rollie Pollies here eat my Cape Gooseberries, radishes, but don`t bother too much. I use spot treatment with dust to stop them on my gooseberries. The armadillos come after them and the crickets and huge worms and uproot everything. Over half my garden is usually destroyed. I`ve tried alarms. Now I`m trying pepper powder. I can`t afford a fence or the tools to build one. The ground is like concrete and my soil has been hauled in with a garden wagon and created with tons of mulch. So my garden is a magnet to them.

Keep mulch' around if your improving your dirt

I have a ridiculous amount pf lizards in my yard so I NEVER EVER EVER see or hear a cricket. Maybe a spider once in awhile. We found 3 scorpions in 4 years and we never spray. Let the lizards do the work for you.

I created one portion of my yard to be a bird garden, they have their own figs and other trees to eat as well as bird food. From time to time, I will not feed them and they eat the bugs in the area. I just saw about five rats in my bamboo the other night, they were getting down and eating the left over bird seed. I notice they only come out at dusk.

Get several cats they will take care of pest naturally.

Love this video. Carpenter ants are eating my shed.

I had problems with rats, too. Then I made the Mascalls mouse trap but in a rat size. It's super effective and easy to build. The main thing is to find their nest and flood it.

I have moles. I only don't like them when they tear up the grass but who needs grass? Other than that they airate the soil and help reduce grubs.

Armadillos uprooting everything is my problem. I just sprinkled over a pound of hot pepper powder and peppermint oil everywhere.

I had just one bug that ate the whole bush,after i killed him the plant recovered itself

I have a shit ton of rollie pollies! They are pretty cool!

hedgehog & wild cat (NOT p** house cat ) & the chain of food in your property would be in good balance

King snakes are a keeper. They will kill any other snakes including rattle snakes and eat the rats.

You need a little pack of working stock terriers. They will hunt for rats all day.

Try getting a Rat Terrier.

I use double bubble chewing gum for mice and rats. Been using for years,Thank you Gary Matsuoka.

How do you handle gophers? They killed 2 of my trees. Traps are slow.