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Re: Phantom cucumber plant


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At 10:45 AM 6/28/99 -0400, Nancy Roebke wrote:
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>> Does anyone know of anything (other than the two-legged, upright standing
>> ones) that would take an entire fairly mature plant right out of the
>> ground leaving no traces?  We live in the country with hardly no people
>> around us so I'm hesitant to believe that another person did this.
>
>Believe it or not, some types of birds mistaken viney plants for 
>small snakes.. and snatch them just like you describe. With 
>nothing left but roots..
>
>Nancy
>Ere, Pa.
>Zone 6

A friend recently watched in disbelief as a cock pheasant plucked a whole
row of foot-high corn out of the ground, seedling by seedling.  Margaret L


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