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Produce => Pests & Diseases => Topic started by: petemason on July 07, 2005, 14:20:32

Title: A visitor - mouse?
Post by: petemason on July 07, 2005, 14:20:32

Something has been burrowing in my raised carrot bed. A mouse perhaps. The coin is a 2p piece. Will mice burrow to eat carrots?

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/meatpaste/hole.jpg)

Title: Re: A visitor - mouse?
Post by: undercarriage plan on July 07, 2005, 15:16:31

Bumble bee, perhaps?  Lottie  ;D

Title: Re: A visitor - mouse?
Post by: Mrs Ava on July 07, 2005, 22:53:35

I get lots of holes like that and thought moles as we have plenty of those on the plot, keeping the bl**dy mice company!

Title: Re: A visitor - mouse?
Post by: Rosa_Mundi on July 08, 2005, 01:06:17

Looks very like a mouse - have just spent a couple of days flooding  one out of a similar hole (literally, with a hose).

Title: Re: A visitor - mouse?
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on July 08, 2005, 08:27:37

It's on the small side for a mouse, but it's certainly nothing bigger, like a mole. They're quite fussy about where they live, and the molehills couldn't be more obvious. Alternatively it could just be that you dug it over and created a void which is collapsing.