Crickets! Crickets eat iris rhizomes. They have been eating my iris rhizomes. I do not have ants or grasshoppers around, but I do have a lot of Crickets around my home, and they are Huge!
They take huge chunks out of the iris rhizomes, not pinhole size either. They chew the tops of the iris rhizomes. I have had to resort to using Cayenne Pepper on the top of each and every Iris rhizome to deter them from chewing up the rhizomes. The leaves are not affected at all. I'm hoping to win this battle before I lose any or all of my Iris gardens.
