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I have had some leaves last year and my first leaf this year that looks like someone took a pair of dull scissors and cut it approx 5 inches long,What kind of bug eats almost a straight line?? Just wondering what kind this is because this doesnt happen to often and I cant catch it doing it during the day.

Brooks

6/21/2005 11:11:43 PM

Sheridan . NY

Hi BROOKS-THEY are leaf cutters a bug in the leaf hopper family --they work from the under side doing just what you see eating thin strip leaf --- a light dose of Warrior T 1/8 of teaspoon to the gallon of water with 1/4 oz to gal of spray tech oil----grow--em big---craig

6/22/2005 6:50:32 AM

Follansbee, Wv

How wide is the cut, and how close to the ground is the leaf? The only "leaf cutter" I have ever heard of is the leaf cutter ant. Perhaps there is another name for the pest in my neck of the woods. Frankly, it sounds either caterpillar or slug related, but without knowing how wide the cut is or how high the leaf is off the ground it's impossible to say.

6/22/2005 6:54:04 PM

Could be wind, I am getting that a lot. Or a bug chewed a small hole and then the wind sliced it across, or could be just stress rips. I have it too.

6/22/2005 10:45:17 PM

Ohio

the cut isnt wide at all, its just like you took a knife and cut a straight line. I Seen what was doing it yesterday and OLD MAN is right I squished it.I Got that little B&%^$#!!

6/24/2005 4:42:34 AM