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Eaten potatoes
In article , "Bob Hobden" writes: | Some of our potatoes have been eaten, not by slugs, we know what that looks | like thank you. | | The marks are shallow scoops out of the flesh on most damaged ones although | some have been eaten almost away. Are there any small (burrowing) rodents | that eat potatoes below ground? That's what it looks like. Yes. Several. Voles, mice and rats. | What makes me ask is seeing a vole type creature today scurry around where | we have some lettuce. We have bait boxes containing a powerful rat/mouse | poison spread around the plot so whatever it is it doesn't eat the peanut | butter flavoured bait. I'm wondering if it may therefore be mainly | carnivorous as not as many potatoes were slug attacked as we expected | considering the weather. Could it be eating the slugs and damaging the | potatoes in the process? Very unlikely. It is probably one of the voles, and they are very vegetarian (UNLIKE mice and rats), so that peanut butter probably won't tempt them. I wouldn't worry too much, as they don't cause much damage unless there are lots of them. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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