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Sep 28, 2015 12:51 PM CST
Name: Kate
Monroe, Connecticut
I hope someone out there can help me with this. Every year about this time I pull the dead leaves and stalks off my huge daylily bed so I can put mulch down between the rows and sort of tidy things up before winter. Each year I find that several plants have nests built of the fuzzy daylily fibers that surround the base of the plants. The nests are [url=shttp://garden.org/pics/2015-09-28/drayton/db678a.jpgmall]shttp://garden.org/pics/2015-0...[/url], maybe 5 or 6 inches across, and roundish and buried right at the base of the plant. They are soft and light and every once in a while they incorporate a tiny bit of moss. Last year, a little later than this, I found tiny white pearl-like eggs in a few of them. The only thing I've seen in this garden besides bees is a frog or toad every now and then. Anybody know what these are?
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