They also eat crops, which made them unpopular to farmers.
Imagine trying to eat crops that came up the next year in a field where people died!
Ordinarily, the insects would go on eating crops until they died.
Some problems with groundhogs are that they eat crops and dig around the foundations of buildings.
Some beetles cause trouble for farmers and people in forests because they eat crops or trees.
Farmers there report constant problems, mostly lions killing cattle and elephants eating crops.
To many farmers' dismay, they often eat cultivated crops.
The deer were to be removed, because they ate young trees and crops.
Moose sometimes also cause problems when they eat landscaping or crops.
Since they will eat crops when available, they are also sometimes killed by farmers protecting their produce.