Lily Flowers - Being eaten?

[stscream4187]

This is my first lily plant, have had it for about 2 months now. Doing great, a ton of new growth. I finally saw 3 flower buds develop and was getting so excited to see the blooms. All 3 were there last night (no pic of that) and then this is how it looked this morning. Almost as if something ate them or cut them off. I have a ring motion alarm and looked through all the footage, nothing tripped it. For reference, I have a turkey that comes by daily and also raccoons that visit at night sometimes that always set off the motion alarm. It’s baffling me why these are like this, so I figured I’d ask the experts! Let me know if you have any thoughts or advice. Thanks.

 

[JRS]

Bummer, I am waiting on my first bloom this year also. I was thinking deer, chipmunks or rabbits since it looks close to the edge, but cannot explain why the motion was not detected.

 

[j.w]

Don't know where you are located but could it have been a turtle? Sounds like whatever got it was in the water due to not setting off the sensor. Any part of your pond where something could enter the pond w/o being detected?

 

[stscream4187]

Don't know where you are located but could it have been a turtle? Sounds like whatever got it was in the water due to not setting off the sensor. Any part of your pond where something could enter the pond w/o being detected?

I am in Pittsburgh, PA. A lot of woods around us and we do find Eastern Box Turtles quite often in our yard/woods. I honestly assumed deer because they are everywhere here but the motion would have went off. The turtle could have snuck in, I never would have thought that.

 

[Hound Heaven]

I am in Pittsburgh, PA. A lot of woods around us and we do find Eastern Box Turtles quite often in our yard/woods. I honestly assumed deer because they are everywhere here but the motion would have went off. The turtle could have snuck in, I never would have thought that.

I don't have deer in my yard because it is fenced plus I have dogs, but racoons, possums, owls, crows, a box turtle and chipmunks have all escaped without triggering either my Blink cameras or my trail camera. Both are set on the highest sensitivity Super exasperating.

 

[stscream4187]

I don't have deer in my yard because it is fenced plus I have dogs, but racoons, possums, owls, crows, a box turtle and chipmunks have all escaped without triggering either my Blink cameras or my trail camera. Both are set on the highest sensitivity Super exasperating.

The camera has to be missing things then for me... I find it hard to believe a deer could sneak by but who knows.

 

[JRS]

Excepting a glitchy camera, I like the box turtle theory or maybe I am just partial. Flowers are part of their natural diet and my sliders do like to eat the canna lily flowers that drop into their ponds.

 

[stscream4187]

Excepting a glitchy camera, I like the box turtle theory or maybe I am just partial. Flowers are part of their natural diet and my sliders do like to eat the canna lily flowers that drop into their ponds.

I have 2 boston terriers, and they set off my motion camera without fail every single time they are in the frame. Next time I get a bloom I will need to figure out how to get a feed.