Animals That Eat Garden Plants. When the opossums had made the home in your yard the evidence will be in the damage they are making. Animals often spit out fuzzy or prickly plants simply because they are uncomfortable to eat.
Other animals are raccoons feral cats and deer. All eat leaves or fruits of plants in vegetable gardens. They may damage parts of the plants eating portions of them taking chunks out of leaves and consuming parts of beans or entire beans.
Are common examples of herbivores animals in a wildlife ecosystem.
Deer can damage plants 6 feet high and they tear plants when eating so that the stems and leaves are ragged not cleanly cut like rabbit damage. Woodchucks are attracted to bean plants leaves stems and pods. Rabbits are lagomorphs not rodents. And sometimes moles raccoons squirrels and other animals that dig in your garden arent eating plants at all.
