Calling backyard botanists/ornithologists - Do crows eat plants?

[UTUSN]

For a few days there have been a bunch of crows thrashing around in my patch of canna plants, which had been eaten ragged assumed by me to have been done by caterpillars. They were into the upper parts of the cannas and beneath them and vocalizing their heads off. Some appeared to be smaller but not exactly offspring - do crows *nest* somewhere or steal nests? There are *NO* bugs or caterpillars visible anywhere although a few butterflies come around not-much.

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Scarecrows

They’re put together for a reason, and it’s to discourage them from feeding on young corn.

[rockbluff botanist]

2. Corn seedlings

I have had trouble with crows eating my corn seedlings.

Canna lilies are a favorite of rubber grasshoppers.

[rockbluff botanist]

3. Lubber grasshoppers

[UTUSN]

5. Well, forgot about *snails* infestation

But those aren't that much in the canna area since my "solution" for the infestation was to decimate all the plants and bushes, or is the word my "surrender"?

[UTUSN]

4. "lubber grasshoppers" - OK, but I don't see any critters anywhere

[rockbluff botanist]

8. They attack like their cousins the locusts

Lubber grasshoppers attack lilies and the associated species in large numbers. They attack, eat and move on in a group. I have seen them moving across my lawn and pasture in the hundreds.

Their methods are much like blister beetles on clematis vines. They strip the leaves quickly and move on.

[UTUSN]

9. Thanks, haven't seen anything like that passing through. Crows are obsessed right now.

[sarge43]

6. American crows are omnivores

They'll eat just about anything that doesn't put up a fight. They do eat plant leaves, including poison ivy. Your plants may taste usually tasty.

[UTUSN]

7. Thanks - in all my years hadn't seen them do much more than mock annoyingly!

[XanaDUer2]

10. Kick