I know, all to well. They die easy but if they are established in your neighborhood in other host plants, oh well. If you grow roses in FL you know they are the most destructive pest that there is. If you don't stay on top of the situation, they will destroy your garden. And not just roses.

I've linked the current county burn ban map as it appears this morning. A lot of counties that temporarily lifted burn bans a week or two ago now have burn bans in place again. This morning, 46 of the state's 77 counties have burn bans. Since new burn bans can be added anytime a county's commissioners decide to implement one, this maps updates constantly whenever OFS receives official notification from a county. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: County Burn Ban Map

I've linked the OFS page containing the current burn ban map below. Currently, 60 of our 77 counties have burn bans in place. If you have any questions about the specific terms of the burn ban enacted by your county's commissioners, you can click on your county's name on the list below the map and read the text of your specific burn ban. If that doesn't clear up your questions, contact your local emergency management officials. Many parts of Oklahoma are critically dry. Please report all smoke and/or flames you see to your local 9-1-1 dispatcher, whether your county has a burn ban or not. Most areas of Oklahoma are critically dry and any grassfires that do start can morph into wildfires pretty quickly. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Burn Ban Map

I'm not familiar with the Hosts function but I go about it a different way. Two different homes, two different routers (one up-market and one mid-range) and both allow assigning names to devices. The names seem to be associated with the MAC addresses rather than IP addresses. This would be an advantage if Hosts uses IP addresses because in the case of a device connecting, disconnecting, then reconnecting to the network (as when turned off then back on or a portable device that leaves WIFI range and comes back) or of rebooting the router, whether deliberately or as a result of a power hiccup, a given device without a fixed IP address isn't guaranteed to reconnect with the same IP address as the last time. And often won't. I take devices from one home to the other and of course the IP address in a different network will be different. With router identification that uses unique MAC IDs, the device's prior IP address in the same or different location doesn't matter. Additionally, if I want the at the moment IP address of a particular device, I can access the router from ANY connected device, no matter what its OS, and get the info. *- "if I want the at the moment IP address of a particular device..." this is useful for me because I have some devices that I log on to over the network and I need to know which IP address to use. An example is the cell phone range extenders I have in each location, the status and function of which I check once a week but that can only be done by using the current and correct IP address over a LAN connection.