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Tunnels in my greenhouse
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Hello, I'm new here but hopefully I've asked this in the correct place.... I have had tunnels in the soil in my green house. The biggest hole is approx 6" round with smaller tunnels within. There is not too much of a smell, no animal pellets but tufts of white fluff here and there. There are piles of soil left from the digging. My main worry is that these tunnels seem to be underneath the patio slabs and the furniture in there also. Does anyone have any ideawhat it maybe?
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If no chance of a camera, get yourself some of the all weather rat bait and put it in the entrance to the tunnel. If it has gone after a few days then it is definitely rodents. Nothing else eats this bait.
It could be rabbits, are there any foot prints?
Thank you. I will look into hiring a camera for a night or 2. I did wonder about rabbits as there is white fluff near a couple of the entrances but as I've never seen a rabbit in my garden I did wonder more on the side of the rats. If I can find a not too expensive camera to hire I'll get it set up x
i didnt notice any footprints but I'll have a closer look tomorrow ?
If it is rabbits then you would almost certainly find their droppings somewhere in your garden. They look like large black currants.
The droppings that is, not the rabbits!
Hey, thanks for all your advice. We pulled the floor up and took everything out - there were tunnels all under the slabs too. We found rat droppings in some of the tunnels so that answers that one. We have completely redone the whole floor, filled in all of the tunnels and completely covered the whole floor with slabs and weighted them down. We've also decluttered behing the greenhouse so hopefully that will deter them from coming back. We didn't find any actual rats so hopefully they have left the area already x