black-tailed deer

Lin barkingdogwoods@gmail.com
Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:40:07 PST
Sadly the Texas leaf-cutting ants ate all the foliage off my daffodils and
ipheion in the front yard - the daffs are now growing back and seem to be
blooming, but I think I lost most of my starflower blooms.

Cut ants are very interesting - they don't eat the leaves, instead they take
them to their mounds to feed to a fungus that they cultivate, and then eat
parts of the fungus.  Their colonies can be huge underground. 

https://citybugs.tamu.edu/factsheets/landscape/… 

The good news to me is cut ants seem to keep the fire ants away from my
property. I'll gladly sacrifice leaves so I don't have fireants. 

Lin Grado
East Texas

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From: pbs [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Travis O
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2016 10:24 AM
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Subject: [pbs] black-tailed deer

We have black tailed deer in SW OR, they definitely eat Crocus, and have
even nibbled Allium, Muscari, and Narcissus. Whatever they don't like they
try and pull out of the ground out of spite.

Colchicum is the only truly pest proof bulb I grow. Nothing seems too
interested in Iris or Crocosmia, either.

Travis Owen
Rogue River, OR

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