[pbs] Question about pest mammals and bulbs

Douglas Westfall eagle85 at flash.net
Sun Jan 4 22:02:00 EST 2009


"
Bulbs in the Amaryllis Family also contain physiologically active (i.e.,
toxic) alkaloids that serve as deterrents to animal predation.  So I  
wonder
why Doug's daffodils in the mountains keep disappearing?  The only  
predator
that occurs to me is bulb flies, which are not deterred by alkaloids."

Jim Shields,

I think that it could be squirrels.

Doug


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