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Leafhopper swarm

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Posted by gilli2007 4 (My Page) on
Wed, May 30, 07 at 1:04

Help!!
My garden has been infested by billions of leaf hoppers. They are everywhere and infecting all my plants let alone the roses.
I have been trying to control with soap spray which is working to an extent but there are so many bugs that I can't seem to keep ahead of them. They are literally all over the soil surface and on the fences and everywhere. A lot of the problem seems to be that spraying makes them hop off the plant or up from the soil and the spray misses them.
Does anyone know if there is a Leafhopper season? Will this infestation slacken off after a couple of weeks or am I in for this for the entire summer?

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This is the one thing I have never found any thing really organic that works against. The closest thing to organic that will get rid of them are pyrethrines. Extracts from a plant, or sometimes produced artificially. Pyrethrines are toxic but breaks down very fast in sunlight or just left on the leafs. No traces of this stuff will be left in the soil or in the plant.

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As a follow up to my original posting.....

The leafhopper swarm has now abated. There are one or two left hanging around but nothing I can't live with. I have never seen that many leafhoppers before. And I found that those little devils bite too. My legs were covered with probably 100 bites from being out in shorts for about 1 hour.

The soap spray was working but I had to make it really soapy. I think it was just that the shear number of them was the problem.

Now my roses can start to recover somewhat.

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My problem was that the grown leafhoppers just went away for a while and came back when the plant had dried. Perhaps I did't make the soap solution strong enough or I have a varity of leafhoppers that don't mind a soapy shower now and then. The infant leafhoppers survied the soap spray too.

  
 

 

 


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