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- From: "Shawnee Flowerfarmer" <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
- To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] buggy question
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:55:10 -0600
Thanks Dawn, it is the spittle bug. I hope that I have them under control with the soap treatment....I've never had this bug in the greenhouse before. (I love that reference to the spitty bit resembling cappucino froth. Yucky...I can't wait to show that to another staff member who is grossed out just looking at the thing.)
Shawnee
From: "Dawn M. Ripley" <ripley AT iglou.com>
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To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] buggy question
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:33:06 -0500
Shawnee,
Could your culprit be a spittle bug? Check out these images:
http://bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/Entomology/InternalAnatomy/imagePages/spittleBug.html
Dawn
At 09:04 PM 3/31/2006 -0600, you wrote:
Can anyone identify this bad boy--sorry, no photo-from this description:
The larvae, yellowish light green, 1/8" ish long live inside a spitty looking glob--dime size or smaller suspended around the stem of mostly fine foliage plants. The adult is vivid green, also 1/8", resembles a smaller leaf hopper somewhat, flies, but not so quickly that I can't catch/smash a few.
I am finding these in achillea and lavender plants in the greenhouse. I have been dunking the infested plants in a soap and water solution which instantly dissolves the spitty bit, leaving the larva exposed. The damage on the plants also resembles hopper burn, but the insects are definitely smaller than leafhoppers.
Shawnee
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[Market-farming] buggy question,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 03/31/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] buggy question,
Dawn M. Ripley, 03/31/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] buggy question,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 03/31/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] buggy question, Dawn M. Ripley, 03/31/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] buggy question,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 03/31/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] buggy question,
Dawn M. Ripley, 03/31/2006
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