Something has been at my courgette plants

The stems look like they have been eaten or snapped off.

I don't think it's slugs, they were devouring the leaves but I put down poison and they've stopped being a problem now.

Could it be foxes?

 

Sorry, I can't help, but I'm watching this thread with interest because I'd love to know too.

 

Crows do this very occasionally. If the plant is small/just been planted out they can pull it out the ground. It's happened to some of my courgettes once in the last 20 years.

 

Thanks for the advice.

Thinking about it maybe there is another possible explanation...where the ends are white and not hollow, I think that it just where a flower has fallen off. And where there stem is hollow, that might have been where the slugs got hold of the plant before I started poisoning.

Crows is a possibility too.