I wanna cry / myLot

St. Catharines, Ontario

August 12, 2025 4:54pm CST

Yesterday, I had two lovely ears of corn on the stalks in my garden. I thought I'd leave them for one more day, Today, nothing! Something got them. I don't know if someone came in my yard and took them or if it was the work of killer ants... because there was a swarm of them at the site of one missing ear. At least I was able to pick some green beans and cucumbers for my dinner.

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@DaddyEvil (156357)

• United States

14h

We have a fat little squirrel that kept stealing the veggies I was growing on our front porch. I'm sorry something took your corn.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (50228)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

@DaddyEvil Mostly chestnut trees here.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (50228)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

10h

Thanks. The squirrels around here like to plant things in my pots.

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@DaddyEvil (156357)

• United States

10h

@BarBaraPrz You're welcome. The squirrels do that here, too. I pull up walnut trees all the time.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (481538)

• Italy

11h

This is really sad, I understand why you want to cry.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (50228)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

10h

Thanks.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (481538)

• Italy

10h

@BarBaraPrz I remember when one of my pumpkins grew by the other side of my fence and disappeared.

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@allknowing (151536)

• India

23h

Such tragedies are a regular in our garden - It is the birds that commit the crime.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (50228)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

21h

The birds kept getting the mulberries, then pooping purple poo all over, so I cut down the tree last summer.

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@allknowing (151536)

• India

21h

@BarBaraPrz I do not mind birds eating the fruits but not the vegetables such as chilies.

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rakski

@rakski (146188)

• Philippines

21h

oh my, I am sorry to know that.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (50228)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

10h

Thanks.

LindaOH

@LindaOHio (197583)

• United States

12h

Maybe it was a raccoon.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (50228)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

11h

Could be.

Mr.Yang

@jefferson126 (3513)

• Shenzhen, China

14h

Sorry about you lost ears of corn,maybe you should pick them yesterday.If someone took them away,they were terrible.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (50228)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

11h

Yeah, shoulda coulda woulda but I didna...

Amber

@AmbiePam (101568)

• United States

12 Aug

Oh, no. I am so sorry. I would bet it’s definitely animal related. My stepmom had some lovely corn, and she saw a crow get one, and something else got the other one because it was a clean “break”. A human couldn’t have gotten in her back yard to do it. I’m glad your green beans and cucumbers made it. My great grandma grew the absolute best green beans; I imagine yours would stand up there with hers.

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (50228)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

21h

They could use some rain, though.

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snowy

@snowy22315 (194449)

• United States

22h

That is what I am afraid of

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BarBaraPrz

@BarBaraPrz (50228)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

21h

What? Theft? Killer ants? Something else?

Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (38223)

• Toccoa, Georgia

12m

I'm sorry. Do you know what has happened to me for the first time ever this Season? It has nothing to do with garden vegetables. It has to do with growing sunflowers. In the past, I was able to grow sunflowers. This year, I grew some, but after some bloomed really nice, all of a sudden, I would go out to look and some creature would have bitten the heads off them! I was shocked. I am thinking squirrels may have done it.