Diseases and Pests, Snails, Deer and other Pests

Daffodil Pets

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Here in northern California we have tiny deer compared to most parts of the USA. I would guess a mature one stands maybe 40-inches or 1-meter. This baby deer is about half that. There were five deer in the immediate vicinity when I photographed this one.
Apparently we are ignoring the daffodils for the much nicer sweeter grass…
P.S. how many legs do you count? This is actually two babies one blocking the other.
Cheers,
Ben

6 comments for “Daffodil Pets”

  1. That’s another great thing about daffodils, Ben. The dear don’t like them! Unfortunately they do like hostas, daylilies, crocus, etc . . .and cyclamen. That nice little cyclamen coum (photo sent a few weeks ago) is now nibbled down to the corm. Mary Lou

  2. Maryland Deer eat species daffodils, jonquilla, golden bells and other small stemmed daffodils.  Anyone want to visit and see the deer eat.
     
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  4. Does anyone out there know if deer eat Solomon’s Seals (Polygonatum)? David Burdick Saw some bare ground in the daffodil field yesterday here in Western Mass
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  5. YES THEY EAT Solomon’s seal…….. I used to have huge clumps of the wild ‘seal’ and ‘plume’……. as well as trillium’s…..they manage tow wipe them out….

  6. David in the UK where deer are not a common problem, EVERYTHING eats Solomon’s Seal, it even has a caterpillar of its own which eats nothing else.
    James Akers

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