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Hopper - Are these good or bad in the garden?

every year we seem to have loads of these hoppers but my question is are they bad for my plants? hope someone can tell me ;o)

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By Rachelscott_renouf

Uploaded on 7 Feb, 2008

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Littlelarford

8 Feb, 2008

Love the photo, just don't like hoppers or toads !!!!

Mcmneil

15 Apr, 2008

Beautifully detailed

Tasteyg

15 May, 2008

Amazing photo, I love the detail. I think that they're considered pests, but I'm not sure. You've got a great photo to show your local nursery person to find out though :)

Marguerite

2 Aug, 2008

Well, this one is a real beauty, ours don't have those black dots on them. But all grasshoppers are pests as they just love chewing leaves. Remember the locust plagues in Egypt? Well, here in the West some years they are so terrible, like big black clouds they come swarming in and just settle on any paddock, stripping the grass, on a garden, gone in no time, in an orchard, all leaves gone! Trouble is, plants breath through their leaves, they make food from sunlight ( photosynthesis ) and can only do so through the leaves. In other words, the locusts can kill the trees, plants, shrubs, flowers etc. They also love rose petals. Luckily we personally have never been plagued by them, but some farmers have.

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