Sometimes pest will leave you a sure sign of damage such as the below girdling on this passionflower vine. I don’t know who did this but I would just consider it a natural form of pruning.
Sometimes they only eat holes here and there and I think; “Why didn’t you just eat the entire leaf?”
Sometimes the look of guilt is just all you need to know that someone is up to no good!
And when you catch them in the act:
They are just too cute to scold!
Just too cute!
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Arthur in the Garden! 
I hope all that clover keeps him out of your vegetable garden!
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Luckily, they prefer the wild strawberry and grass. Occasionally, the may nibble on other things.
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I like your relaxed attitude. When I first started gardening, I reacted to every bug and critter
like it was the end of the world. I sprayed a lot of insecticidal soap–and worse. Now I know damage happens. Unless it get really bad, I just take it in stride.
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Exactly! Its natural to have a few bugs and a few nibbled leaves. Its all a balancing act.
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Cute!! 😀
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They can eat all the clover they want. Just leave my phlox and young aronia alone!
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Your basil leaves look like my basil leaves!
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I think this is the large lettuce leaf basil? Yes, holes in the middle. Wonder why they don’t just nibble the edges?
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Aw! Too cute!
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Bunnies are disgustingly cute like that. 🙂
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Pests come with the territory! This year our big problem is badgers!
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Badgers! Oh, lord! Our biggest pest are squirrels. My yard is surrounded by a fence so no deer issues like the rest of North Carolina!
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I get that same guilty look from our yellow lab…so cute!
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Funny how they know when they have been bad!
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Great post! We have a stray dog that has been in the garden a few times. First he was just digging holes, no doubt trying to catch a mole. But, he did dig up some asparagus in the process. Yesterday I found 6 green tomatoes on the ground with bite marks… GEEZ! He must think they are balls or something!
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Ha! Funny that he would play with tomatoes!
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You think? I think rabbit stew,!….Yummm!
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Ha ha ha! Here in the USA rabbit is not often eaten. They are so cute and they mainly eat weeds and grass. I think I will let them have their fill! 🙂
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Rabbit is eaten in wintertime, here in Belgium!
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