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