Yellow Twig Dogwood

[harfis01]

Something is biting off the stems of a yellow twig dogwood and just leaving them on the ground, not eating them.
Deer had previously torn up the plant but not snipped off single branches.

Is there any animal that has a tendency of doing this?
The typical city animals are around, opossum, raccoon, skunks, groundhogs, squirrels, chipmunks, etc

 

[Chuck]

Something is biting off the stems of a yellow twig dogwood and just leaving them on the ground, not eating them.
Deer had previously torn up the plant but not snipped off single branches.

Is there any animal that has a tendency of doing this?
The typical city animals are around, opossum, raccoon, skunks, groundhogs, squirrels, chipmunks, etc

If the end of the cut twig looks like it was mechanically cut what you have is an insect called twig girdlers. There isn't much you can do at this stage except to gather all of the cut twigs and burn them as the eggs are in the end of the twig.

 

[harfis01]

The ends do look like they are cut.

Thank you very much for the information.