Re: what grasshoppers can do
- Subject: Re: [iris-photos] what grasshoppers can do
- From: Christopher Darlington c*@sympatico.ca
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:54:43 -0400
Hi Donald,
Wow, this looks more like a large hungry animal ate your plants right to
the rhizome !!!! The worst I've seen here is chunks the size of a
quarter missing from the odd fan. Maybe you have a different, more
hungry species than we have here.
Chris
Donald Eaves wrote:
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> Here's a photo of what they can do en masse when they are hungry. There are
> only 4-5 clumps eaten this way at the moment, but this is what I saw all
> summer long last summer - and even worse. I put the watch in for
> perspective. This is WITCH'S WAND and it's been in place for almost 4
> years. There's another WW clump that has escaped this amount of damage in
> another bed. I'm ready for them to go away. The seedlings become rather
> expensive since the spray I've found isn't cheap and doesn't last long. But
> seedlings cannot survive this kind of chewing. (Also a pretty good
> approximation of what my soil looks like after it has been heavily amended
> for a few years :(.
>
> Donald
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