Have you seen the squirrels in the act? If not, I wonder if it isn’t a rat... I have been dealing with a similar problem, which in my case was definitely a Norway rat that had discovered my winter growing bulbs in the greenhouse and had been ransacking them, eating the fresh new leaves and digging up the pots and scattering the bulbs and labels, consuming most of them but leaving a few chewed in half here and there, or just yanking them up and caching them under the tables in mixed piles so now I have no idea what they are. Sigh. Years of babying these little bulbs, mostly grown from seed, all shredded in a few moments by a rat. Apparently it favored the Romuleas more than anything, followed by Gladiolus and Calochortus. Babiana and Watsonia not so much, though it still apparently found some entertainment in digging up and scattering even those bulbs it didn’t want to eat. I finally caught it today after having set about 20 traps of various kinds all around the zones of destruction, but it had continued to ransack the pots for a couple of weeks before it started testing the traps yesterday. It was a peanut butter-oatmeal mix in a powerful metal-bar-under-tension trap that finally caught it. It had been burrowing through the gravel under the edges of the greenhouse, so not much I could do to prevent entry, since the entire greenhouse rests on a gravel pad. The next greenhouse will have a concrete foundation, I think. On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 10:42 AM John Wickham via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > The squirrels in my neighborhood have apparently taken a liking to my > Lachenalia collection. All the leaves have been devoured and pots have been > dug up. This despite having the entire collection in an enclosed space. > They've left the adjacent table filled with Oxalis, Babiana, and Tritonia > alone. I'm looking for weaknesses in the structure of my enclosure. But any > ideas on other strategies to deter these monsters? > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>