Eleanor Roosevelt, still in the unfurled stage, has been decapitated.
Just below the blossoms, there are diagonal cuts on the stem, clean, not chewed, almost like a knife cut but extremely diagonal rather than straight across.
6 of the buds on 2 clumps of Eleanor have been sheared since yesterday afternoon
Lots of damage with no sign of feeding, just destruction
Whatever it is doesn't eat the flower buds.
Doesn't seem to eat much of the stem.
I have turned that area into a insecticide toxic waste dump so it is not insects
Mice? Rabbits would eat the flower pods and no tracks or scat
Birds? Seems odd to just cut off the flowers
Any ideas? We don't have moles or voles, just mice
