Who's eating my bark?

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Lardman

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Who's eating my bark?
« on: March 13, 2014, 12:00 »
Checked the apple trees today and something has been eating the bark  off the remaining branches :mad: Should I be looking for something slimy or could it be something else ? They're only tiny branches !

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Re: Who's eating my bark?
« Reply #1 on: March 13, 2014, 12:38 »
could be rabbits  :(
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Re: Who's eating my bark?
« Reply #2 on: March 13, 2014, 13:24 »
Or Deer

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Lardman

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Re: Who's eating my bark?
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2014, 13:38 »
No rabbits the foxes ate them all  :nowink: and muntjac live at the bottom of the garden and don't come that close to the house. I'd have expected anything big to have eaten the branch  :wacko: - Stupid autofocus is making getting a picture difficult.

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Re: Who's eating my bark?
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2014, 13:46 »
This ones better..

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Re: Who's eating my bark?
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2014, 14:08 »
Interesting - the edges of the chewed bark suggest the sort of rasp-shapes slugs or snails sometimes make, although I wouldn't have thought that even young bark was part of their usual diet.

If it was a small rodent I'd expect to see some damage to the underlying tissues too - it would be an extraordinarily precise job to just nibble the bark off without leaving any other marks.

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Re: Who's eating my bark?
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2014, 22:44 »
Rabbits would happily chomp straight through a twig that size, it does look as if a small rodent could have been nibbling

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Lardman

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Re: Who's eating my bark?
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2014, 23:00 »
I'll set the traps again  :mad: although why they'd eat bark when there's plenty of real food elsewhere I don't know. As long as it's not some sort of vile mite or fungal decease I suppose that's something.

(Palm reading suggests you need more cheese in your diet Lardman!)

Probably, but it's currently cheaper to eat dead cow - so I am.  ::)

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Re: Who's eating my bark?
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2014, 23:05 »
Squirrels are the masters of precision tree chewing ! :mad:


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