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["Alan Haigh" <alandhaigh@gmail.com>]

Every season just as my apple grafts begin to emerge they are pounced upon by leaf hoppers, those tiny chlorophyll vampires that seem devoid of natural predators here.  They are my main cause of graft failure.  Lady bugs usually eventually control the aphids but weekly applications of Sevin have been my only solution for hoppers.  Does anyone out there have another idea?  Something requiring less work. 

 

On another pest subject, a few years back at a NAFEX meeting a lecturer spoke of a natural predator for tarnished plant bugs.  Has this predator become commercially available?