Even a female Ruby Throat can guard 3 feeders. If you only have 2-3 birds, then one aggressive bird might be able to keep them all away from the feeders. I try to put at least 4 feeders up when the first birds come as to make it difficult for one bird to keep the others away. Those feeders are usually in a 40 foot area. Now when the first Rubys arrive, one birds will run himself crazy chasing all the other birds; but the birds just keep coming and he gives up eventually. I only know RTs, but some variation of this should work. Might have to spread the feeders out.

this particular infection which is definitely what it sounds like he has, blocks your antivirus program so it does not matter if he has one or not he can not use it and it will not allow you to go to an antivirus site and get one.(there are several that will disable your onboard AV however) It blocks most known addresses for security programs. Some variants have shown to turn off system restore and not make safe mode available. With out the use of specific written scripts for it there is not much that a regular person can do. Which is why the security help forums are so important for these type situations, they work hand in hand with program writers to get the newest and latest programs to try to clean these darn things out. Unfortunately many people have no clue help is out there. One of the reasons we all try to cover so many forums so we can direct them to help. To bad we can not help them all.

My first reaction is that it's a good fit. There's a lot of cross traffic among some GW members and Houzz. Additionally, social streams are proven ways of keeping people involved with a site after a particular interest has been filled. I'm only guessing, but I'd think Houzz would want the forums, and want to keep them intact for that reason. It's not whether they have cooking, it's whether bringing in the CF to talk about cooking is of complementary interest to the people who frequent Houzz. There's the whole urban foraging movement, and Williams-Sonoma selling Yuppie chicken coops. I'm sure the Harvest Forum will find traction with the backyard-to-table crowd. They'd be best served by leaving clunky old Gardenweb alone. I've said this before, but the format where most recent reply, rather than most recent thread start or most popular is on top, and old threads fall off the bottom, is most conducive to lively and always fresh daily discussions. There's nothing duller than a forum where the members expect a newbie to wade through 3000 pages of past content to "get up to speed" on that which has been discussed before. Each discussion is a little different, and (nearly) each new person each thread attracts has something interesting to add. This past year there must have been half a dozen discussions of how to make spaghetti sauce! How great is that! It's also great that we're mostly self policing, and members feel free to throw in personal news, minor tangents, etc., without having the topic police editing them. Another great thing is all the white space. Jasdip is spot on about the avatars, animated signatures, etc., that choke most message boards nowadays. The good sized and scalable fonts make it easier to read GW as well. Summary: GW is great as is. :) My big question is was GW spun off or was Houzz acquired by NBC?

Neonicotinoids like imidacloprid are useless against cottony cushion scale and some other scale. In fact, it is counter indicated since it affects its main biological control. Over here, pyriproxifen and spirotetramat are recommended together with oils depending on the type of scale. These are growth inhibitors and not knock down insecticides. If going for the organophosphates it is better to use chlorpyrifos but I know it is not available for home and garden use in the US.