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["Sage Austin | Eureka! Design" <eureka AT hctc.net>]

Leslie, here in our desert landscape harvester ants carry off seeds 
laying on the ground. I've also had mice snoot around in my flats and 
eat seeds, but I can see their snoot holes in the soil when this occurs. 
As Bob says, birds also eat seeds. This is one reason Fukuoka developed 
the seed ball technique (you can Google it) but I have found in our land 
of little rain they don't break down as quickly as they should.--Sage

bobf wrote:
> Leslie, no=one more knowledgeable answered, so ,as a fellow desert gardener, 
> I'll give you my best idea.  Right at the break of dawn, (and other times 
> during the day, also), little chi-chi- birds (that is what I call all little 
> birds I don't bother to identify) come down and eat grass seed, seed from 
> weeds, and if the seeds aren't well protected, they will eat your garden 
> seed.  I think you would see ant activity if it was enough activity to get 
> every seed, but that is just a guess.............
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> --- On Wed, 3/4/09, Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > From: Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [Homestead] ants
> > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 12:26 PM
> > Do they "steal" small seeds?
> >  
> > I planted in started TP & a few in peat cups.
> >  
> > Everything that was a small seed didn't come up.  
> > Larger seeds about 80% sprouted.
> >  
> > I found an ant tunnel underneath on of the trays of seeds
> > in the cold frame, so wondering if they steal small
> > seeds....
> >  
> > :-)
> >
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