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Eating paper?
Marion Brockie
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Can anyone tell me what is 'eating' paper in my greenhouse? If I leave seed packets out to remind me of care, they get chewed and there are bits of roundish chewed paper left about.
can I do anything to rid myself of this 'invisible' parasite?
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Mice
snails eat paper. Probably many insects as well. And mice chew anything.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think snails as well. I came back late one summer evening to find a large snail busy munching its way through the cheque that I'd left out for the milkman!
re-reading the OP, the chewed paper left around suggests mice.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ah, now that makes sense, thanks! It is not snails as I can eliminate them. Hiwever, I have had mice elsewhere in my garden as I have a storage box with different bird seeds that are an attraction. I keep them in plastic containers now but they do seem to thrive on just about anything as they destroyed a couple of sun lounger cushions by gnawing through the cloth and getting to the foam (for nesting, presumably).
Thanks, everyone, for your help!
Should have said, Singing Gardener, I hope you retrieved your cheque in time lol
Pansy the state of my homework in the old days that was the best place for it,
Decided to write another one as a good square inch had disappeared from one corner and I wasn't sure how the bank would react! I'm afraid the snail didn't survive the experience....
It was rats ate my cushions
not sure if mice would , and it was snails ate my seed packets
Could well be snails, mice would be leaving little turds everywhere as they are incontinent