Actually, I should count my blessings that I have any plants at all this year. Up until the last week or so, it's been all I can do to keep them from rotting from all the water that drenched us. And now all of a sudden we have temperatures in the 90s.
Critters. Hmmmm, could be ants? We are having a problem with them, and I suppose they could easily cause the same sort of problem. I know they killed off a small columbine.