Which animal is a problem in your garden ?

[Anthony Darby]

Voles! Here is Iris unguicularius after the long tailed variety attacked it. Note, they left the green-veined white (Artogeia napi) pupa (LHS) intact!

[angie]

1st is Mice
2nd is slugs
3rd is rabbits
I suppose I could get a pussy cat to control the mice

Angie

[tonyg]

Do children count?  Since we had them my garden has gone to the dogs

[tonyg]

No-one has mentioned Blackbirds - they are good at removing labels from pots in frames ... a major pain when every pot has the same genus in it and the leaves all look alike.  (Yes, I cut the labels shorter now!)  Mind you I think a cat got one of them recently and a hawk took another while I watched so I reckon there'll be less muddled labels this year.  (Sorry if these comments are a bit un-PC)

[PDJ]

Number 1 enemy The Cat

Cats cause so much damage, are vicious filthy creatures.  Last week I was scratched and bitten by someones cat because I tried to shift it off the garden.  People who own dogs have to take responsibility for their animals and its about time the same applied to cat owners.

I have lost snowdrops, bushes and other plants to them.

My greatest hope is for their extinction.

[mark smyth]

as if that will happen

[PDJ]

You can only live in hope.

[fermi de Sousa]

1. Red-legged earth mites! - worse than thrips! But only during the cold months.
2. slugs/snails - usually only in Autumn till spring but devastating when seeds are germinating!
3. echidnas - mostly during the summer - digging up bulbs in their pursuit of ants!
4. cockatoos - rip up the grassed areas digging for romulea bulbs, then destroying labels, flower stems and new shoots!
5. rabbits - only travelling through at this stage
6. dogs - neighbour's one used to bury bones in the rock garden!
7. kangaroos - mostly eat grass but will flatten anything in their path! Wallabies are worse!
8. snakes - scare the h*ll out of you when you "surprise" them in the garden!
9. peacocks - a feral flock were loose in the area a few years ago - one of the neighbours has since "tamed" them.
10. horses - our neighbour's jumped the fence once and threatened to trample everything - we had to take the fence down to get him back into their yard!

[Susan Band]

Okay Fermi,
You win Definitely the longest list and most exotic pests. You would need a big fence to keep kangaroos out.
Susan

[David Nicholson]

Number 1 enemy The Cat

Cats cause so much damage, are vicious filthy creatures.  Last week I was scratched and bitten by someones cat because I tried to shift it off the garden.  People who own dogs have to take responsibility for their animals and its about time the same applied to cat owners.

I have lost snowdrops, bushes and other plants to them.

My greatest hope is for their extinction.

Ah! A fellow sufferer (Yes, again Eric   )

[vivienr]

We have lots of neighbourhood cats around in our garden and I have never noticed them do any damage at all. But I can't imagine what our rodent population would be like without them.
We have everything - mice, voles, stoats, rats - and rely on the cats and foxes to do their bit. In return they get some nice quiet patches to have their naps in the sunshine.
We have a few rabbits which damage the fruit trees, grey squirrels but their numbers seem to be down a bit, and lots of wood pigeons which eat every flower bud of every decorative allium that I have ever planted.

[tonyg]

There must be two breeds of cat.  The ones round here are like Vivien describes.  Clearly others encounter a different kind

[Ragged Robin]

Slugs..slugs....more slugs....even more slugs - they love rockeries 

Snails....snails....all sizes - hiding in the meadow 

Night time vigil saves some plants otherwise I leave them to be eaten themselves 

Jazzy presence keeps any cats on their toes even though she misses seeing them   

[mark smyth]

This cutie needed two cruciate ligaments fixed for chasing cats!

[Panu]

Voles and hares, but they arenīt that bad. There is some advantage living north Cats are the good ones.