I read around that possums will usually only eat stuff that's fallen on the ground. So it may not be possums. It's likelier that these are field mice then. I read field mice can definitely carry fleas too. I'm just thinking a small field mouse would have no issues climbing up the tomato vines and going to town on all the goodies. I probably had a dozen of them that "disappeared" in the past week. It would be cool to setup some video to try to capture whatever is going after the tomatoes but it's kinda late in the game now.

I think maybe I should setup one of those peanut butter bucket traps to see if anything comes of it. Should be interesting to find out, at least...

BTW: I should also mention that my garden is enclosed in a small yard with solid walls. There are small gaps/cracks where the walls meet the condo structure. And the walls themselves are only about 5-6ft or so high. This is why I have been guessing about it being mice, rats or possums. I'm just shocked at how fast they went through them. And there's literally no trace of the tomatoes either - reading around, I would have expected to see some half-eaten tomatoes or tomatoes with lots of holes, etc but most of them have literally disappeared. The only ones left are the green unripened ones. I'm sure these things make tasty treats when they're super ripe (I'm assuming because they're both full of water and probably very sweet).

I just contacted my homeowner's association and they said they'll have the pest control company come out to inspect the exterior walls to relocate existing bait stations or add new ones specifically in my area. We'll see what happens...

This post was edited by jplee3 on Thu, Oct 24, 13 at 15:54