Eating paper?
Marion Brockie
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Can anyone tell me what is 'eating' paper in my greenhouse? If I leave seed packets out to remind me of care, they get chewed and there are bits of roundish chewed paper left about.
can I do anything to rid myself of this 'invisible' parasite?
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Mice
snails eat paper. Probably many insects as well. And mice chew anything.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think snails as well. I came back late one summer evening to find a large snail busy munching its way through the cheque that I'd left out for the milkman!
re-reading the OP, the chewed paper left around suggests mice.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ah, now that makes sense, thanks! It is not snails as I can eliminate them. Hiwever, I have had mice elsewhere in my garden as I have a storage box with different bird seeds that are an attraction. I keep them in plastic containers now but they do seem to thrive on just about anything as they destroyed a couple of sun lounger cushions by gnawing through the cloth and getting to the foam (for nesting, presumably).
Thanks, everyone, for your help!
Should have said, Singing Gardener, I hope you retrieved your cheque in time lol
It beats "the dog ate my homework"
If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
Pansy the state of my homework in the old days that was the best place for it,
Decided to write another one as a good square inch had disappeared from one corner and I wasn't sure how the bank would react! I'm afraid the snail didn't survive the experience....
It was rats ate my cushions
not sure if mice would , and it was snails ate my seed packets