By Petersealey
Northamptonshire,
United Kingdom 
what other pests eat plants in troughs other than slugs and snails?
21 Jun, 2011
Answers
Caterpillars come to mind. The moth/butterfly/insect flies in and leaves the eggs on the plant. Just took some off my salix.
21 Jun, 2011
Wood pigeons? Rabbits? Deer?
21 Jun, 2011
...mice.
21 Jun, 2011
Grasshoppers, Katydids, Leafminers....
22 Jun, 2011
Squirrels, leaf cutter bees....
22 Jun, 2011
Not usually as bad as it sounds--it's like those disclaimers on the drug bottles, if all that was really likely to happen, who would ever take the stuff?!
22 Jun, 2011
Vine weevil? Root aphids in the roots? Depends what the symptoms are really.
21 Jun, 2011