Whats eating my daffodil flowers?

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• Bluejayway Posts: 392

  29 February

  Same has happened to mine too.  Maybe a mouse?
  

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• Glenjjones Posts: 146

  29 February

  possibly but no damage to the leaves or stems??? 
  
  

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  29 February

  slugs and snails - apparently because we've had such a mild winter they're even more of them this spring and they're very hungry.
  I was reading an article yesterday that some famous grand house has warned visitors that the snowdrop display this year has been decimated by slugs

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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• Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494

  29 February

  I have had the same problem and it's small black slugs.

  North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone

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• Bluejayway Posts: 392

  29 February

  I thought slugs too but no sign of any slime
  

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  29 February

  I found baby snails in mine.

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  29 February

  Slugs and snails. The tiny ones are the worst. You won't necessarily see slime from those, especially if it's been raining. 
  Sometimes, sparrows are attracted to yellow flowers, but we have loads of them, and they've never touched daffs. Crocus are the usual target for them.

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  29 February

  slugs eat the flowers off all my bulbs
  

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• bertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697

  29 February

  @Fairygirl Usually the sparrows take the flowers from the primroses and leave them on the ground. This year so far they have ignored them, thankfully. Some of our daffs have been bitten at the bottom end of the flower stalk so these were brought inside. Not happened before. However have noticed around about many many daffs are blind this year and so the same in our garden.

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• Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

  1 March

  bertrand-mabel said:

  However have noticed around about many many daffs are blind this year and so the same in our garden.

  I've noticed that here too.
  There's a green about 500ft long opposite my house that has many hundreds of daffs - the display over the 38 yrs I've lived here is usually wonderful at this time of year. But this year I'd guess only 10% have flowered, the rest are blind - very strange.
  
  On the plus side, I've never seen so many crocus! they're popping up everywhere on verges and other random bits of land where I've never seen them before

  
  Billericay - Essex
  
  Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
  Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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