This afternoon saw a most interesting official road sign in Derbyshire:

NO THROUGH ROAD:
Don't believe your satnav.

Jul 22, 2018 at 8:14 AM | Supertroll
"Wildebeest cannot be confused with fieldmice. THEY are socialists and hang around together bigtime"
Is that the Wildebeest or the Field Mice? I have never seen stampeding Field Mice being eaten by crocodiles whilst crossing rivers, but some BBC Science Experts do hang around in big Socialist groups, and are easily confused by major details.

"Scottish fieldmice apparently do have a taste for onion though this is hotly denied by their teutonic kin"

Are Scottish fieldmice weaned off milk and onto onion rich, unwanted haggis, something that Teutonic Greens outlawed long ago, due to the risk to human health?

"House mice will of course eat anything, especially electrical insulation."
Yes, totally agreed. Yacht and boatowners have also suffered, having accidentally imprisoned rodents over the winter lock-up.

The Romans were particularly partial to the "Edible Dormouse", or Glis glis. Accidentally reintroduced to the UK, these pesky critters are now a protected species

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_dormouse
"Once accidentally introduced to the town of Tring in England through an escape from Lionel Walter Rothschild's private collection in 1902,[9] the British edible dormouse population, now 10,000 strong,[10] is concentrated in a 200-square-mile (520 km2) triangle betweenBeaconsfield, Aylesbury, and Luton, around the southeast side of the Chiltern Hills.[11]

Though this animal is regarded as a pest by some,[9] in the United Kingdom the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 prohibits certain methods of killing dormice, and removing them may require a licence."

I do not know whether the Romans preferred their dormice with onion and peanut butter, or whether this is one of the prohibited methods of killing them.

Pcar
Didn't notice your comment until just now.
I don't think it's snail/slugs, being/been eaten from underneath with no damage to green part. I had some over winter Japanese onions most of which disappeared during the Spring. I put it down to cold and wet and late arrival of warmth killing them. Now I think it was hunger driving what ever it is to eat what was available. There are also a lot of small tunnels just 1-2" below the surface but no mole hills (since eliminating the last one). So my current thinking is it/they developed a taste for onions earlier in the year and now like them. They have taken a few whole decent sized ones whilst leaving those around untouched and just the leaves left flopped over. I'm going to be away from home for a week, so keeping fingers crossed that not too many of the later planted crop gt taken. I hesitate to tempt fate but am surprised carrots and beetroot have been left untouched.so far.

In Toronto, grey squirrels have black lustrous fur. I would feed them on the way to my office not knowing their true origin. They would feed from your hand but obviously would sometimes mistake your fingers for electrical cable.

grey squirrels sorted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QD584zIsiQ

Supertroll
One of Grey Squirrels favourite foods - electrical insulation along with joists.

golf charlie
Never seen them just what the local wise woman said.

golf charlie / Supertroll / Ross Lea

I have two mole traps purchased in France, basically a tube the diameter of a mole tunnel with one way door at each end so mole can enter but cannot exit or turn round You check the latest pile of earth for the direction of the tunnel dig a hole place tube into tunnel and bury. After a couple of times of the mole digging round the tube I caught it, (un)fortunately the shock killed it. The coke bottle thing didn't work for me, possibly the type of bottle is important to get the right frequency. I have a acquaintance who had a close call with one of the explosive traps in is second home (spends half the years there) with an accidentally detonation, he recommended the tube!

Grey squirrels were a problem in my previous house, causing lroof damage and (I think) raiding birds nests. I purchased a couple of Fenn Mk4 traps from an online auction house and after being outwitted several/many times finally got a pretty good system in place so the squirrels were killed instantly rather than being caught by a leg. It was a box with peanuts visible inside, an opening in the top with 2 soup tins with ends removed as a vertical tube from the opening dropping straight onto the trigger plate. Good job squirrels like a challenge. I think later another neighbour used an airgun as a visitor would appear and disappear again before I could set up the trap.

As a child we keep a few ducks and chickens and a couple times we had stoats killing them never a fox as far as I can remember.

Europeans seem more relaxed about alcohol and sell it in glass bottles of various sizes so there is room for a great deal of experimentation (using purchases made before HMCR have carte blanche to prevent anything but a couple teaspoons worth being brought back after queuing for 17 miles) and failure may not be a totally bad thing. Although one of those solar powered ultrasonic might be a cheaper solution. Anyone causes issues for the French, Italian and Spanish obtaining wine and Germans, Czechs and Slovaks beer would be in serious trouble I think

Gwen. Wildebeest cannot be confused with fieldmice. THEY are socialists and hang around together bigtime.
Scottish fieldmice apparently do have a taste for onion though this is hotly denied by their teutonic kin. House mice will of course eat anything, especially electrical insulation.