asian lilly roots eaten
Hi,
For the first time last year, my wife's flower garden had some sort of underground pest eat about 30 lilly bulbs from the ground up. We are in upstate NY, if that matters. There were little tunnels to each plant, and the roots were just...gone. You could touch the plant and it would just fall over. At first I thought it was moles, but then read that they don't eat roots. I live in a wooded area, and see chipmunks running all over -- could they be doing this? My other thought was voles or shrews, both of which I see once in a while. The tunnels are too small to be gophers. My first question I guess is, what is doing it. My second question is how do I stop it. I have started making wire baskets out of hardware cloth, but that is very timeconsuming and I'm not sure how long they'd last buried in the ground. I have also read that most of the repellents are only temporary, and that the sonic posts don't work at all. I'm sure this question has been answered a million times, but I couldn't come up with any search terms for google that would tell me what could be eating the root systems out from under the plants. Thanks for any info you can provide... |
asian lilly roots eaten
On 5/19/07 5:32 PM, in article ,
"brock" wrote: Hi, For the first time last year, my wife's flower garden had some sort of underground pest eat about 30 lilly bulbs from the ground up. We are in upstate NY, if that matters. There were little tunnels to each plant, and the roots were just...gone. You could touch the plant and it would just fall over. At first I thought it was moles, but then read that they don't eat roots. I live in a wooded area, and see chipmunks running all over -- could they be doing this? My other thought was voles or shrews, both of which I see once in a while. The tunnels are too small to be gophers. My first question I guess is, what is doing it. My second question is how do I stop it. I have started making wire baskets out of hardware cloth, but that is very timeconsuming and I'm not sure how long they'd last buried in the ground. I have also read that most of the repellents are only temporary, and that the sonic posts don't work at all. I'm sure this question has been answered a million times, but I couldn't come up with any search terms for google that would tell me what could be eating the root systems out from under the plants. Thanks for any info you can provide... I'd bet the problem is voles. Research from that angle and good luck |
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