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Cabbage Plant Carnage Jan 2012

I have an unknown pest prowling my garden at night. The picture to your left is the carnage left of my defenseless cabbage plant. Cover the children eyes from the horror of that picture. This dirty rascal is also feasting on some of my seedlings. It ate the tops off my onion plants down to an inch above the soil, only left me two of my four tomato plants, bypassed my carrot tops and just left the cabbage plant in shambles. I went out multiple times last night to catch the scoundle in the act, but all I found was more missing seedlings and no trace of the perpetrator. He didn't know though I had sprayed the plants at dusk with an organic insecticide called Spinosad. Who's got the last laugh now! Unfortunately, since I don't know what is eating everything I hope it works. I had my Dad check the remains of the cabbage plant and he feels it maybe a mammal I'm after, something like a mouse. Therefore tonight I set out mouse traps, one snappy the other is a glue trap. I've checked twice tonight and the glue trap has caught german cockroachs only, but I have no further damage. Let's see what tomorrow brings....