No cat, no bird, no bugs visible, not even a small dog or even a raccoon! And I have spent the last hour looking through AV sites. They tell me how to grow - no problem. But only address bugs when I find sites that look at problems. I emailed Dr. Optimara! We'll see. Actually, I just inspected the small cyclamen which was showing buds; some of them may have also been eaten.

Darn! I feed the mice in the kitchen. Deliberately leaving the compost - and two live traps...

There is more to life than violets, mice and raccoons, so on with the paper project.