Small Animals That Destroy Our Crops

These animals help control the populations of rodents rabbits and other small animals that can carry diseases that can be harmful to man as well as damage and destroy our food crops.

Small animals that destroy our crops. In our region bison deer monkeys used to destroy our crops at least 30 percent of my crops used to get destroyed by the wild animals every year. Raccoon and other small mammals can be a pest to some crops. Mice rats rabbits snakes birds worms beetles all kinds of animals die when crops are planted and harvested.

Insects are responsible for two major kinds of damage to growing crops. Wild animals like monkeys elephants wild pigs deer wild dogs bison nilgai stray animals like cows and buffaloes and even birds like parakeets cause a lot of crops damage by running over them eating and vandalizing them. We have to end this perverse game in order to avoid a loss of biodiversity.

Let your cat help keep small animals away. Doing only minor damage physically the striped cucumber beetles decimate cucurbits by transmitting diseases that stunt or kill the host crops. They dont destroy crops but they sometimes can get in the way.

Farming by its very nature leads to the death of hundreds and thousands of animals. Often just small parts of the killed animal are of interest. These include concentrated fox urine and other carnivore animals that are natural predators to garden munching animal pests.

Besides actually hunting the animals that make it into your garden your cats scent and presence may scare off future pests. There are a variety of products at your local garden store that produce varying degrees of success. Garlic sprays and blood meal will deter some animals.

Species especially animals become endangered since people are greedy and want to make as much money as possible. As ever more people make the ethics of harming animals central to their dietary choices the number of wild animals killed by farming is an essential piece of information a figure that could inform ethical calculations guide consumer decisions and shape environmental research. In our region bison deer monkeys used to destroy our crops at least 30 per cent of my crops used to get destroyed by the wild animals every year.