Leaf hoppers suck plant juices.
Baby grasshoppers EAT the leaves themselves.
Put on a pair of work gloves and just squish them. It might be just a crop from an egg stash near you, and then you might find fewer.
It can be an endless battle... ahhhh...the joys of gardening!
I personally found it very satisfying bashing their brains out with rocks, after they destroyed my efforts up there. Just getting my stuff up there is a real job, to have it ruined in one day? I have no guilt bashing them up! Our shoreline is huge, there are plenty more in both directions!
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Weezie looking at petunias 8.25.2017
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