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Favourite Garden Pest

Secret SquirrelSecret Squirrel Posts: 533
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Ok, this might be me but do you have a favourite pest? You know that eat your garden or cause damage, but you just cannot help but like them. My 'loveable rogue' is the Scarlett Lily Beetle. They are such a lovely bright red.

I also found the other day the most humungous slug, it must have been two inches long. It's markings were the cross between mackerel and a tabby cat. It's most likely inside a blackbird now has I put it in the middle of the grass. Not loveable just fascinating.image

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  • Tray14Tray14 Posts: 210

    My 3 sons! LOL image

  • chickychicky Posts: 10,409

    Have a grudging admiration for the deer, that neatly munch everything in sightimage

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,128

    We don't have a lot of snails in this garden, but those we do have are mainly the lovely banded ones, that look like mint humbugs, they're so pretty 

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     We also have large red slugs Arion rufus who mate on our lawn on damp summer mornings - they are impressive, and as they eat the keel slugs and little grey ones that do most of the damage in the garden, I leave them alone. 

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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Orchid LadyOrchid Lady Posts: 5,800

    OMG Dove, what are you trying to do to me, urgghhhh haven't even read what you've written.  Had to move the page up quickly image Glad I wasn't eating birthday cake at the time image

    Anyway, my favourite pest (wait for the moans!!) is squirrels, they are just so cute and cheeky and I love the way they tease the dogs by running along the back fence image

     

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