Hedgehogs
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Hedgehogs are excellent garden-pest
controllers, eating anything vegetarian they find creeping about at
night.
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They eat large quantities of these
cutworms, slugs and millipedes (the black creature that makes a flat
coil when picked up and that eats holes in potatoes and lily bulbs).
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They ignore the 'ninety-nine bump'
centipede (Lithobius forficatus) which is flattened, chestnut-brown and
a good slug-egg eater and will eat carnivorous creatures if starved
into it, devouring our foes and sparing our friends for the same reason
that we eat buck in Africa rather than hyenas - they prefer the taste.
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Birds have beaks and, so far as we know,
little sense of taste, while frogs and toads snap up everything that
moves, ignoring flavor.
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