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Originally Posted by Max363
Howard after reading Tony's referenced article about the many medicinal/pharmecutical uses of the passion plant/fruit, it's no wonder your bees drift off to lala land after visiting your passion flowers! Now if only the grasshoppers in my yard went to sleep before they consumed portions of my Monika's flowers!
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We have found that using a floral spray of 1/2 cup of malasses, 1 tbsp of liquid detergent and orange oil, if you can get it, will keep the hopper away. Thay cannot digest sugar and will either leave of die. Works for us as we had a multitude of them last year but very few now.