Help Identifying droppings

Captain Kidd · 14-08-2022 8:11am #1

Found some droppings in the garden of a house I recently moved into. The odd thing about their location is that they are sprinkled around the top of a weed. See picture. These are bigger than mouse droppings, but would a rat climb one of these? Nothing above it either so the droppings didn’t fall from a higher place.

ive included an image of the weed I found them on, the red circle indicates the height they were at, doesn’t seem like the plant a rat could climb, but I don’t know much about rats. The other picture is a close up.

Any help would be great

Jim_Hodge · 14-08-2022 8:47am

Dropped from above??

Mongfinder General · 14-08-2022 9:06am

Doesn’t look like rat droppings nor rabbit dropping.

looksee · 14-08-2022 10:20am

Looks like slug or snail deposits to me.

Captain Kidd · 14-08-2022 11:10am

thanks everyone, I thought perhaps a slug considering its location, but thought it must have been a big slug considering the size of the droppings.

Captain Kidd · 14-08-2022 11:12am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119470741#Comment_119470741

That’s what I thought initially, there’s no ledger or write above, I thought maybe a rat pooped from above but there’s nothing. A slug makes sense but I’m surprised a slug poops this big!

Jim_Hodge · 14-08-2022 3:01pm

Sharpened the pics up and it's caterpillar dropping.

New Home · 16-08-2022 6:34pm

Hedgehog, probably. A young one, too, judging by the size.

Edit: applogies, I missed the part where you said they were not on the ground.

Jellybaby_1 · 19-08-2022 7:40pm

I'm no expert in gardening but we had lillies a few years ago and we had an infestation of lily beetles and the gunk we had on the lillies was similar to what the beetles slept in!! Yuck!

Captain Kidd · 20-08-2022 7:43am

Thanks everyone, the fact that you ruled out rodents has me relieved, I’ve returned at night by with a torch but haven’t found the culprit yet. I would be happy to find cattapillars!