Alvin and the chipmunks
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Are you sure it is the chipmunks? Them taking out a field of soybeans just doesn't sound right. They live in rocks, wood lots, and brush piles, not fields.
However, biological controls: Hawks, cats, and terriers.
Live trap, peanut butter maybe as bait.
I recently had rats, not little field mice but big rats, eating my blue lake pole beans off just after they sprouted. They started at the end of the row and ate each plant as they came to it, maybe two plants a night. For 40 acres o0f soybeans, that would be a lot of rats.
However, biological controls: Hawks, cats, and terriers.
Live trap, peanut butter maybe as bait.
I recently had rats, not little field mice but big rats, eating my blue lake pole beans off just after they sprouted. They started at the end of the row and ate each plant as they came to it, maybe two plants a night. For 40 acres o0f soybeans, that would be a lot of rats.
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I understand Sandhill Preservation's farms had a similar problem.
I'd think that many Chipmunks, most of which are the size of a large mouse that I know about, to take out that many Soybeans, would be cause to call in some experts to study a population explosion of some kind.
If it really is Chipmunks, you might start by calling the Biology Department of your nearest Agriculture University.
I'd think that many Chipmunks, most of which are the size of a large mouse that I know about, to take out that many Soybeans, would be cause to call in some experts to study a population explosion of some kind.
If it really is Chipmunks, you might start by calling the Biology Department of your nearest Agriculture University.
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Holy cow seedcorn, there would have to be a legions of them, My advice would be run for the hills LOL! 
SuperChemicalGirl
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Having just pulled a stinky, maggoty, dead chipmunk out from under the tub in the master bath... I'm voting napalm.
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seedcorn
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It is bone dry here in NE Indiana and they are leaving the woods, side road ditches, yards looking for any succulent green plants. They live in colonies and spread their colonies all over fields. Usually not a problem but here they are.
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lesa
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I have seen entire populations gone, with one house cat...A dozen hungry barn cats, should do it. Good luck!
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We had a colony living in our landscaping. then the neighbors got a new cat and they were cleaned out within a week.lesa said:
lesa
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They seem so fast, but the cats can get them easily...
