On 20/06/2020 22:22, Leon Fisk wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 11:53:04 -0700 (PDT)
LAS14 LAS14 wrote:

Over the course of the last two weeks something has
bitten off the stems of the flours on four different
plants at about 4 to 8 inches and then bitten off and
removed/eaten/dragged off the flowers from the other end,
leaving the severed, beheaded stem. One plant was an
anemone robustissima. The other were some delphinium that
I'd bought this year and which bloomed before they were two
feet tall. The stems were very thin, so it suggests a small
critter. I've wrestled with woodchuck problems over the
years, and would expect much more devestation if it were a
woodchuck. Any ideas as to what this might be and what I
might do about it? I'm going to set out a have-a-heart trip
with a bouquet of the remaining blooming delphinium in it
as bait.

My culprits were deer and rabbits. Fence was the solution. Deer only
have incisors on the bottom. So they have to tear stuff
off leaving a ragged stem torn on the top side. Rabbits nip stuff off
clean like shears. Deer will try most anything and step on lots of
stuff in the process...

Squirels and mice can do that as well