tbell wrote:
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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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
Nikon D200


My friends have mice/rats eating their buds, spikes and inflorescnces...
so it was a thought. There's a great story of Fordyce stabbing the rat
that ate his only remaining piece of Argh 'Neon Light' FCC/AOS was the
clonal name..... anyway he hunted teh rat down stabbed it with a knife
on a spike then searched the entrails for a viable eye.... to no avail.
The gereral opinion is that judges are reincarnated as rats or slugs
when they die since these vermin eat only the desireable plants.

K