On 7 Apr, 10:42, Janet Baraclough wrote:
"Kathy" wrote:
What eats rhubarb leaves?
Went down the allotment today, and found that the leaves on just one
of our five rhubarb plants had been stripped to the ribs! *No slime
trails,
footprints or droppings as a clue, so any ideas on what it was?

* IME nothing eats rhubarb leaves (too toxic). *
Certainly nothing would eat them twice. Sounds like some creature was
learning the reason why

Since its exclusively
one clump and on allotments my guess is that a neighbouring allotment
owner has
harvested your leaves to make an insecticidal brew to spray his newly
planted crops, (but generously left you the edible bit).

Would they have left the ribs? Sounds a bit fiddly to me...