Nightly around 10pm, we have a hunt of sorts. I don yellow kitchen gloves, a camping lantern, flashlight, and sweatshirt (not quite 110 during the day yet...so the nights are still cool) and make my way to the side yard with the raised beds.I've been fighting caterpillars for a while now, but they seem to be fewer by the night. I only found two munchers tonight. So that begs the question...
What is eating the plants now?
Grasshoppers I do believe. It's a little too late for biological control of them (those bran flakes with a biological agent that destroys them from the inside out), but they give me the willies and are hard to catch. Wonder how I'll fight this battle. Yellow gloves will be part of the plan, I'm sure.
