Mother nature giveth--and taketh away.

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While Mother Nature happily may grace your garden with rain, warmth, and sunshine, she might not always be on the same team when it comes to keeping critters out of your gardens and landscapes. Foraging pests can destroy your yard, literally overnight, warn the makers of Bobbex animal repellents.

It is possible to thwart garden thieves, but first you have to know which animals have been dining on your plants and shrubs. Once you have identified the culprits, you can settle on an effective means to convince them to leave your garden alone.

Here are some clues to get your detective work under way:

Devouring deer. Ragged bites, typically a foot or more above the ground, indicate deer damage. Deer are notorious for devouring gardens and landscapes. You will see them, and their offspring, every year, making dinner of your daisies, daylilies, and other ornamental plants.

Ravenous rabbits. If plant damage is a few inches above the soil and includes stems clipped cleanly at an angle, you probably are dealing with rabbits. These four-legged foragers will eat just about any kind of vegetation, including your flowers and bushes and other woody plants. If you do not want bunnies nesting and raising families near your garden, remove brush and other debris that could provide them with shelter.

Voracious voles. When flower bulbs disappear from the ground or plant roots go missing, chances are you have voles--mouse-like creatures that burrow underground and are highly destructive to...

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