I had success with peppermint oil soap & water sprayed on whatever
fruit/veggie the leaf hoppers attacked. It actually kills and repels the
bugs. (They hit my tomatoes & pomegranates pretty hard some years.) Go to
www.care2.com for the recipe.

"Rusty Mase" wrote in message
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I have an Eve's Neckless tree outside that accumulates leaf hoppers
like crazy. All the "honeydew" they excrete prevents you from even
walking underneath the tree during the summer. They appear
full-grown, so being a relative of cicadas, they must have a larval
form in the soil. I have been watching for them and they just now
arrived in full force.

Has anyone seen a gentle way to decimate this population of evil-doers
after they populate my tree? Maybe a bacterial agent? Last year I
used my leaf blower but that just temporarily disperses them.

That bottle of malathion that has resided quietly in my tool shed for
25 years now is beginnning to look real friendly at me and I think it
is starting to sing "Bali Hi".

Rusty Mase