I was out pruning some of my tomatoes and other summer veggies of damaged and diseased leaves yesterday and came across a few stinkbugs, leaf footed bugs and I also found a fair number of those aggravating foliage worms. I killed what I could with my little hand sprayer and removed some clusters of leaf footed bug eggs and stink bug eggs but if they keep showing up in heavier and heavier numbers and start getting out of control I will have to resort to a more comprehensive spray late one afternoon; but for now I am only doing individual bug spraying. This has been the driest spring I have ever dealt with not having seen any rain for two months so it hasn't been that difficult to maintain control of the pests so far. Keeping everything hydrated in these over 100 degree days has been a much bigger and more expensive problem this season.
Bill
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