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PART 2 - Help indentifying little brown eggs & bugs on Cassia

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Posted by bella_shell (My Page) on
Thu, Aug 26, 10 at 3:13

I couldn'd upload two photos so here is the second photo to this part of my previous post:

I have also seen a few of the bugs shown in this picture. They are the kind that hide from you--they move around the stem of the plant to hide from you as you move. Are these the bugs that laid the eggs?
I wonder if they are eating my butterfly eggs? I usually have a lot more cloudless sulphur caterpillars by now. This year I only have a few. I'm also having an ant problem so that could be contributing to the problem.
FYI I live in San Diego

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This is a glassy-winged sharpshooter. Not the one that laid the eggs, neither do they eat them. Sharpshooters suck the juices from plant stems. Sometimes they have also been the vector of plant diseases, passing the germs from one plant to another in their saliva.

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Cindy,
Thanks again for this info. The branch of the cassia that I have seen them on has no sulphur caterpillars but the rest of the bush has them so I though they must be eating the eggs. But actually now that I look that is the only branch without yellow flowers (that the cats like)....maybe because of the sharpshooters that were hanging out there? This cassia in my front yard is the only one out of all of mine that has a lot of caterpillars this year. Something is getting to a lot of the ones in the backyard.

I have seen bugs that act (move around the branch hiding) and are shaped similar to this sharpshooter on other plants like my milkweeds-are they all usually bad?
Michelle

  
 

 

 


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