I must be stupid because flickr have rearanged there website i would not have a clue now how to put up photos sorry to be a pain i hope that someone can help me out.

now to see if i can do that again this is what a caterpilla done to this mamm haernadezii i think it was a caterpilla

dude

nasty.

could have possibly also been a rat or mouse?
did it appear over night?
have also had earwigs do similar damage.

one of my grafted ones of the above got hammered by a rat,
fortunately it calloused well and cos its grafted quickly outgrew it. now its not even noticeable.

Crikey... that looks like some sort of rodent... vermin.... varmint. Varmint-Cong.

Ouch that's not nice...

And yeah Flickr are messing around, I think they want everyone to go to a flickr page rather than to an image, probably so they can sell more advertising or something down the track. I think you can get around it by going to the largest size picture, right clicking and choose "Copy Image Location" and use that in your post - at least that's what it is in Firefox.

That looks like rats to me because the damage is so fresh and severe, I recently went to check one of my green houses after a few days and the buggers had eaten all my super kabuto X coahuilense 3year old seedlings. They left the skins but not one plant out of dozens, it's not fair I would have liked to try one but now I'll have to wait till the following years seedlings are a bit bigger.
Now I have said it before and I'll say it again, Talon......evil chuckle.
I don't know what has happened to me I used to be such an animal lover and am a committed non-meat eater. But somethings can just push a man too far and all I can say is pity help anything that decimates my astrophytum cultivars!

Man that is nasty, could a rat reach the graft ?

Maybe but there are about 50 different grafts next to it all my nice astrophytum asterias cvs and mamm leuthyi's but this was the one that is next to a small peice of wood were it is possible for a rat to stand on and eat the plant my dog usually kills them first, hope i see a dead one soon i cant use rat poison because of my dog.
I just hope over the next few days nothing else gets munched as i have my precious seedlings all near as well.
Could it be a new holland honey eater its a small black bird witha little yellow i have caught a few over the last few months flying in my hothouses now im on the ball and it is secured no entry for unwanted birds except i gap in this house were it is possible for them to get in but after the weekend they wont .

I wouldnt suspect the honey eater cactuscook, they only eat nector and maybe some bees...if it is rats/ mice poison is the best way . You could place baits in a sealed container with a small mousey hole? Thats what i did and i found that the vermin ate the baits in the container without spreading them outside of it. Oh and have you tried photobucket for your photos?

Yes again for some reason im having no luck at all putting up photos so ive given up two hours of going around in circles so until i figure out no more photos.

Step by step from my album:

Start by clicking here

Then click a photo you want to post.

Then right click on the photo.

A menu pops up, with the option view available sizes, select whether you want medium or large.

A new page loads, now right click on the photo and go to properties, copy the address.

Then just paste that address between [ img] [/ img] tags

Thanks for the help cooky173 i am a novice when it comes to computers so i am learning as i go.