Yup. A deer or some kind of rodent.

Mice or voles would be my guess. I have several lilies like this . Interestingly, they seem to prefer the green shoots of Asiatics, rather than the OTs that come up with redder-colored new growth. A dose of pepper might chase then away for a short period of time while the lilies are still short.

You may still get bloom on that stem since the buds are deeper down. I think of lilies as "telescoping" up as they grow to their full height. I occasionally lose the tips like that due to late frost but they bloom anyway, the foliage will just look a bit scrappy below the inflorescence.

It looks like a single chomp. Makes me think a larger animal: like deer, rabbit or ground hog.

Any thoughts, martagon bud, thinking spider mites.

You mean white hair? It's normal.
Just kill that red thing under!

The red thing is in the freezer

Yeah, that's normal. Lotsa people (like me) think it is attractive. Some martagons don't get the white hair masses at all, some do it even more. Certain asiatic hybrids, too, as well as some species, but it is quite a variable trait.

Thanks, don't remember seeing it before.

There is a special name for that kind of hairy mass, but can't think of it now. That particular lily has always been hairy, but the larger the number of buds on the spike, the more noticeable it is.

Last spring as i was admiring a lily with a large bud a squrriel strolls up and bites the whole top of the lily off. He's lucky i don't own a gun.