Please somebody tell me i'm not the only one who is having plants totally destroyed by these things. They are eating everything in site including believe it or not my century plant.It seems like if it's growing their eating it. The only thing they haven't tried yet are the stepping stones
C A T E R P I L L A R 'S
I think I have every imaginable kind of cat here too.
Sevin dust helps a lot for me. Also, pick them off when you see them. What is bad is the grasshoppers munching and munching. Sevin does not seem to keep them off, but slows them down a lot.
I think I may have a few of those also. The ones i've seen are a kind of lime green color. We also have one that gets quite large and they are black, yellow and a bit of pink. They can get big enough to fight back if you let them!
Yeah, I know that awful looking grasshopper - honest it is real scary; probably five inches across, wouldn't you say? Also, the small little lime green one is the one I see on the brugs a lot. The big one ate my rose branches last year, just to aggravate me and to show me he could!! I dared to spray him head on with bug spray. He just glared and ate my rose branches.
I have 2 words for you Catsmeow!
BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS
Kell, I think there are some kinds that thrive on it. I have a little yellow green wooly worm that doesn't seem to know that BT is supposed to kill it. I have to hand pick them and it is almost impossible to find every one of them. Then, they migrate overnight to the best looking leaves and munch on them. I'm sure they are laying eggs as they go. Might be a full time job from now until freeze to keep the population down.
Don't tell me that Brugie! so far I have been so lucky. When i came home I had certain brugs half eaten and when I finally sprayed just 1 time, no more damage! I would be too sad if I had no cure but hand picking. The brugs are too tall. I would have to take a ladder around with me. and we both know it would just be a matter of time before I fell off!
Shirley I also found one like yours the other day,but only one so far.
Roz, you're right those big ones will eat anything they want and just sit and look at you. I don't know a name for them but they do get rather large,upwards of 5-6 inches if not more and for the past few springs i've had batches of them hatch out in my yard and the little ones are all black.If anyone is interested i'll send you some (just kidding) that would be the best way i know of to make an enemy!
Kell,that's what i've been doing just hand picking them or rather hand squishing them. I've noticed on the underside of some of my brug leaves there wil be a little white oblong egg looking thing and then a few days later baby cats. My problem is some of my cats are so samll right now that they are actually hiding inside the crown leaves which are also very small. Then a few days ago I found red spider mites but i used the home remedy of palmolive and murphy's oil soap that I think mavierose suggested and it did work.They're gone thank goodness at least for now.
This year seems to be a bad one for plant eating insects or at least it has been for me.
I am going to try the BT, Kell; I have heard so much about it, and Barbara Ward told me to do that and I forgot about it. Catsmeow, have you tried BT on the big grasshopper? My son was going to catch some to use for fishing bait, but he was afraid it would keep hopping up out of the water. Honest, if you all have never seen this creature, you will not believe it. I am actually afraid of it.
I've had tons of cats this year. Just got finished picking them off one brug, probably got 20 to 30 cats. They've been chewing the leaves off the tiny brugs I started from seed, too. I found a couple of places the leaves were rolled on a large brug, and inside was gooey green stuff. What's this and how do I get rid of it? My brugs have really looked bad cause of all the holes and chewed leaves.
Roz, I did a search on AOL and found a name for that UGLY GH.
It is called an eastern lubber grasshopper.
I thought grasshoppers were good? Ate bugs?
Bt is great for me. And it is not an bad chemical insecticide but environment friendly and cheap! I hand spray and they are gone! I think you do not have to spray them, just the leaves they are eating and then they eat their last meal. and GONE!!! never ot eat your poor little bruggies again!
Roz, are you referring to those BIG black ones that stare you down and win cause you are afraid they will jump on you and claw you to death?
weeds, those are the ones,we have some so big here that they can't even jump!
catsmeow, where are you? Yes, they are huge.
Once I found one with only one leg; I just knew it was some kind of mutant grasshopper that was about to take over this planet. Weeds, you have them too? Thanks, Cat, for the name of this ugly creature. Now when I talk about it, I can say what it is, instead of rambling about a big grasshopper bigger than my foot and meaner than a junk yard dog that gives me an evil eye while eating my rose thorns.
LOL. I hope you made Billy make a little wooden leg for it!
I called him home from work to kill it.
you are mean ROz... A MEAN MACHINE....lol!
Lol Roz, you are a hoot. I don't have them here thank goodness but my mom had them something awful in Alabama. I squished many of them.
I am really scared of them.
I know, they do that to ya. I want to shoot them to keep my diatance but I am not that good of a shot.
I have seen those huge black eastern lubber grasshoppers by the hundreds here in South Louisiana, must be a migrating season or mating season or something, because they were literally everywhere, hundreds of then walking across the roads, etc., so many where smushed on the road it was gross.
gorss me out!
Weeds, I live in Murrells Inlet, south Carolina which is just about 20-25 minutes south of Myrtle Beach. Born and raised here and loving it!
That looks like a nice place to live. I love anywhere on any coast, just born with sand in my shoes.
It's nice except when we have hurricains. Then it's not so nice. The last major one that came through here in 1989 came in at 150 MPH! NOT FUN!
We also grow beautiful brugs here by the way!
So you have fallen into the brug trap too?
This won't help with your monster grass hoppers but... I got a Gardens Alive catalog recently and a new product called Bulls-Eye is supposed to work on leaf eating caterpillars. They claim is works on a number of other pests too... like potato beetles, thrips, and leaf miners. The catalog has a $20 gift certificate so I ordered some.
http://www.gardensalive.com/item_display.asp?ProductNumber=8756
yesterday I bought some liquid sevin--seven not sure of spelling. Now I just need to know if it is safe to use on brugs. Have any of you ever used it on brugs before? I bought it to spray my confederate rose with. The cats are detroying it,then I thought i'd use it on the angels. But not until I know if it is ok to use on them.
I'm getting more and more buds on things and the cats seem to be finding their way inside of the buds now. My HG still has buds on it but for how long, who knows.
My first seedlings from the BGI seeds I got in February should be blooming within 2 weeks. Crosses came from J.T. Sessions ,T. McLeod and Bonnie Vaughan. Two of the crosses have Y'd so far and have buds. The 3rd is still growing tall but no Y as of yet. I'll post pics when the flowers open so all 3 hybridizers can see their work in bloom.
These all appeared to be good crosses to. A few of the seedlings have branches that are taller than the central stem they're quite odd looking.
I've used Seven to spot spray the Japanese beetles with. It hasn't hurt the brugs at all but I don't know about spraying the whole plants with it.
I use the dust and it seems to work really well. I have a dust distributor thing, that looks like an old fashioned mosquito spray thing, that you had to pump and push in and aim. Only this one works with powder. I do not use nearly as much and seems to be just as effective. Course my old method - holes in mayo jar lid, them shake like cracy the sevin in the jar- worked as well.
Don't you breath in that stuff then Roz?
Probably, but not much. Course it probably don't take much to make me sick. The pump thing that I have for the powder has a long spout, so I do not really get any.
Roz, I remember those things. that should or could be considered an antique now (LOL)! I'm only 36 but I remember my grandmother having one when I was a child. I did get my share of dusting the garden vegetables with it though.
Those are neat things to have.