On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:33:10 -0700, Diana Kulaga wrote
(in article ):

Those grasshoppers - luber grasshoppers love Dends! I forget where you are.
We do see them in FL. Big suckers.

Diana

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"tbell" wrote in message
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My GH has been invaded by something that's very fond of chewing on buds
and
rarely on leaves. Careful search has turned up no snails, slugs,
diabrotica
or mole crickets, which do a similar number on my roses. Cyhalothrin
appears
not to discourage the critter.
Any thoughts or suggestions?

I found a 2" grasshopper devouring the buds on my white den 2 days ago.
It did a lot of damage.

Thanks, all. Whatever it is seems to prefer large, Catt type buds, and
has eaten holes in the leaves of a frangipani I keep in the GH. Mole crickets
do very much the same as grasshoppers, but they're both large enough I should
be able to see them. Around here (inland No. CA), we have rats from the
canal, but no field mice, Kath!

Tom
Walnut Creek, CA
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