Those beloved rats that all palm growers could do without, have a fondness for chamaedorea seeds.

Clever little sods I say and on the menu is chamaedorea adscendens seeds.

If I didn’t place these simple clip lock sandwich bags over them I wouldn’t get a lot of seeds.

It’s a proven method that works for me.

Richard, here we only have small mice and they don't eat the seeds, but the blackbirds and turtle doves do eat the seeds.

The only seeds that I have ,that seem to be attractive to rodents , is the Butia Oderata. I can watch , from our deck , the squirrels jump from a fruiting Brahea to the Butia to get the fruit! The fronds almost touch and they leave the Brahea fruit untouched . Fussy little buggers. The Chamaedorea I have don’t seem to be on their menu! Harry

I’ve had rats chew my Chamaedoreas up. Some will defoliate them, others will chew through the trunk and leave the rest dead on the ground. Monsters.

3 hours ago, Tyrone said:

I’ve had rats chew my Chamaedoreas up. Some will defoliate them, others will chew through the trunk and leave the rest dead on the ground. Monsters.

I had a pretty bad event recently. They got in my greenhouse and destroyed a bit of valuable stuff, but I only discovered later that they got to my south facing garden on the blind side of my house which I don’t check often. My female Chamaedorea Metallica is likely done for; a chewed hole through to the growth point and spear has pulled. And check out the pruning job they did on my Cham elatior pair - like a bad haircut! Luckily they left the growth point of the C elatiors though.

22 hours ago, gyuseppe said:

Richard, here we only have small mice and they don't eat the seeds, but the blackbirds and turtle doves do eat the seeds.

Rats and mice have a lot to answer for with damage in many ways.

4 hours ago, Tyrone said:

I’ve had rats chew my Chamaedoreas up. Some will defoliate them, others will chew through the trunk and leave the rest dead on the ground. Monsters.

You can see why they are not a popular little animal in many ways. They get stuck into there fair share of things in my garden, not to mention the seedlings. It’s a continuous process of trapping them. No baits iam to green for that, I even let them go after trapping them. Heaven forbid as to why I do that!

1 hour ago, tim_brissy_13 said:

I had a pretty bad event recently. They got in my greenhouse and destroyed a bit of valuable stuff, but I only discovered later that they got to my south facing garden on the blind side of my house which I don’t check often. My female Chamaedorea Metallica is likely done for; a chewed hole through to the growth point and spear has pulled. And check out the pruning job they did on my Cham elatior pair - like a bad haircut! Luckily they left the growth point of the C elatiors though.

They most likely used the elaitor as nesting material, if your after any more metallica let me know I got a few floating around.