{"id":7442,"date":"2020-05-13T23:57:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T06:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2020-05-14T07:30:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:30:43","slug":"rat-orange-mold-and-lichen-glaze-with-lichens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=7442","title":{"rendered":"Rat, Orange Mold, and Lichen Glaze with Lichens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I found a 3′ long gopher snake in my garden. It was wrapped around the hose reel. Nearly stepped on it. Totally creeped me out. <\/p>\n

Today I found a roof rat in my bird feeder.<\/p>\n

\"Rat\"<\/p>\n

When I was in the process of baiting our live traps, I found an orange with a lovely distribution of mold.<\/p>\n

\"Orange<\/p>\n

Why do we have so much wildlife in our gardens? Drought conditions and gardens that are great habitats for loads of critters. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I wasn\u2019t successful trapping the rat today, maybe tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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Update<\/b>
\nThis morning I asked my husband to open and set the trap. When he opened the trap, the rat ran out. Apparently last night when I asked if he closed the trap, and he said yes, he was talking about something else.<\/p>\n

The rat ate all of the bait\u2013a nice chunk or juicy orange and a saltine smeared with peanut butter topped with seeds.<\/p>\n

Has the rat learned its lesson to avoid the trap? Maybe not. The trap was moved and more tasty treats were placed inside.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday I found a 3′ long gopher snake in my garden. It was wrapped around the hose reel. Nearly stepped on it. Totally creeped me out. Today I found a roof rat in my bird feeder. When I was in the process of baiting our live traps, I found an orange with a lovely distribution … Continue reading Rat, Orange Mold, and Lichen Glaze with Lichens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-misc-interests","category-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7442"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7447,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions\/7447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}