{"id":7953,"date":"2025-11-18T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:00:59","slug":"these-bushes-are-rattlesnake-magnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/snake-removal\/these-bushes-are-rattlesnake-magnets\/","title":{"rendered":"These Bushes Are Rattlesnake Magnets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode, we take a close look at why some of Arizona\u2019s most common <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/tag\/landscaping\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"227\">landscaping<\/a> bushes \u2014 especially lantana and rosemary \u2014 are huge rattlesnake magnets. We start by showing what\u2019s going on inside a typical lantana shrub: deep shade, constant moisture from irrigation, and plenty of rodents. It\u2019s perfect shelter all year, and rattlesnakes take full advantage of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also share a few recent relocation calls where <a href=\"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/tag\/rattlesnakes\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"36\">rattlesnakes<\/a> were found hiding in different types of bushes, to further prove the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re trying to make your yard less attractive to rattlesnakes, this video is a great place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_R55_kj4-2-w\"><div id=\"lyte_R55_kj4-2-w\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/R55_kj4-2-w\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/R55_kj4-2-w\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/R55_kj4-2-w\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, we take a close look at why some of Arizona\u2019s most common landscaping bushes \u2014 especially lantana and rosemary \u2014 are huge rattlesnake magnets. We start by showing what\u2019s going on inside a typical lantana shrub: deep shade, constant moisture from irrigation, and plenty of rodents. It\u2019s perfect shelter all year, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,5,152],"tags":[116,226,227,36,8],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rattlesnake-solutions","category-snake-removal","category-youtube","tag-arizona-snake-removal","tag-bushes","tag-landscaping","tag-rattlesnakes","tag-snake-removal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7955,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions\/7955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlesnakesolutions.com\/snakeremoval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}