Recently I went over a couple of methods of keeping away hoppers from my bush plant. My first method was the dishsoap and water liquid solution which I came to the conclusion barely worked at all. Then I had read somewhere about dusting the plants with baking flour, the flour acts as a glue and seals the hoppers' mouths shut after taking a bite out of a dusted leaf, cruel I know. Well I dusted the bush bean leaf and it's been a couple of weeks since, so here is the result...
Dusting plants under hopper attack.... Works! I was actually pretty amazed, I thought if the dishsoap and water liquid solution didn't work then everything else was helpless as well (I really don't know what gave me that idea in the first place). After dusting, the bush bean was visited by two different hoppers in that same week of dusting but I haven't seen any since, what a relief! Although, I am quite concerned that I am killing the cute little things, I'm hoping in their little insect world they're singing to each other passing the word around, "don't go near that bush bean, it'll kill you".
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