hopper guys

[kittee]

the hoppers have been loving on the fig tree.  they love it so much, they're stripping it down.  do green grasshoppers turn into huge brown grasshoppers?  the little guy from before only has one back leg, but then today i noticed that one of the big guys also has only one back leg.  i wonder if it's the same little man?  i don't care too much about

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[ex_chose]

that first picture is both terrifying and heartwarming. usually, I'm not really into bugs, but your posts and pictures are changing that. what are you doing to me, Kittee???

[fruitflypie]

Wow never knew how cute their little mouths were, ohh my they are darling and he/she appears to have some cute little freckles as well. And yeah now that you mention it they do look robotic. That second photo is our background on the computer, hehe Jason loves your photos too.

[starrytxnights]

The hoppers here are horrible. And they won't stay off of my rose bushes! Argh! Must find a deterrent! As it is I pick them off and the dog eats them. ha!
The poor chrysalis looks as if it has a tiny hole in the top. Maybe some bad sort of bug came along and ate the poor thing inside.

[supercarrot]

yeah. that's what i was gonna say. poor butterpillar

[congogirl]

My cats LOOOOOVES some hopper!

Kittee, amazing that you can get these photos without them hopping away. Or is that to do with the missing back leg?

[kittymonkey]

Nice pics!! Yeah, that chrysalis looks dead.
I had some bizarre bug activity the other day. These two evergreen bushes out front were looking really bad. One of them had died, and then I noticed the other one was also dying. I looked at it for a moment and noticed strange movement all over the plant. Turned out there were caterpillars all over it, but they were wearing partial cocoons, with just their heads sticking out, and they were climbing ont he tree. Some had attached themselves higher up and were closing their cocoons. The thing was that the cocoons were covered in bits of the leaves of the bush, so they just looked like part of the tree. I've been keeping an eye on them. It was really weird.

[kittee]

ew. those sound like bag worms. do they look like this?
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/PPDL/images/bagworm2.jpeg&imgrefurl=http://www.ppdl.purdue.edu/ppdl/weeklypics/Weekly_Picture7-23-01-1.html&h=585&w=400&sz=29&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=-Bz5AxR4J1IxNM:&tbnh=135&tbnw=92&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbagworm%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

[kittymonkey]

Okay, I did some research and found that what has killed two of the bushes in my yard is a bagworm. Or rather, many many bagworms.

[kittee]

bagworms are so gross. i've noticed several of them in the back recently, and one is in the laundryroom.

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