Thanks
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- Subject: Thanks
- From: M* Y*
- Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 09:54:30 -0400
Thanks Pat and Bill for the info. Yes, it does look like spit and spittle
bug is a very good name for it. I was panicking because I didn't know what
to do, and thought that my garden was done for it. Now, I'm on the attack.
;~)
Marie
Z5
West. Mass.
>
>Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 22:58:07 EDT
>From: Blee811@aol.com
>Subject: Re: removing spittle bugs
>
>In a message dated 5/27/99 10:17:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>pattm@execpc.com writes:
>
><< Hate to be gross, but did it look like a bit of spit? If so, that
> insect inside sucks on the plant juices. Cutting will do away with
> them, but spraying with a hard water jet will throw them off your plants
> and thus eliminate the cutting. >>
>OR, just remove the bugs and "spittle" with your fingers. Gardeners can't
be
>too squeamish. I have even learned to kill a Japanese beetle with a
squeeze
>between two fingertips (but I do NOT enjoy it). Somehow this seems kinder
to
>me than drowning them in a jar of water (another method) or poisoning them.
>
>Bill Lee
>
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