What are these bugs and how do I kill them?

Question

One looks like teenie tiny grasshoppers but are a light brown or tan colour, and the other is a little round black domed circle on the plant, and if you touch it with something it flies away. They are both eating my garden making tiny holes in all the leaves. I'd like to get rid of them but not hurt the birds, cats and dogs I have in my yard. Also run off from my yard will go to a tributary of our local water basin so it can't be poison.
Thank you anyone who knows what do do. : )

Answer 1

The first one; if it looks like a grasshopper it probably is a grasshopper. Young grasshoppers look the same as the adults and get bigger during each molt.

The other ones could be an aphids. Aphids exists in several stages. Those that fly and those who don't. A picture of them could have been very helpful in identifying your bugs. As to eradication, if you have also ants try to control those first as ants take the aphids to feed on plants so that they can suck the honey the aphids produce (it is like our domestic cows for them). To control ants without contaminating anything else may be possible by buying ant traps. You have then to remove the aphids by hands.

To remove the grasshoppers one needs to use insecticide. The best way is to spray but since you do not want to harm the wildlife I suggest you buy a systemic insecticide and water carefully the roots. The plant will become poisonous to the bugs for some time.

Answer 2

To kill bugs on your plants without harming the plants or other animals, get a sprayer, like from a bottle of windex, clean it thoroughly, fill it with water and some dishwashing liquid, not a lot, just a few squirts, shake and spray the soapy water on your leaves. This is also effective with ants. This is what I use when the little bugs start chewing on my tomato plant leaves. Make sure you spray the undersides of the leaves too. The bugs don't like the soap and it dries the ants up.

Answer 3

right here is all i comprehend, and that i've got completed organic and organic gardening for years... I gave this answer to a diverse question besides... Organically i could advise to make a blend in a blender then siphon it, place it right into a twig bottle, spray it onto your flowers, right here is the blend: 4 cups crimson warm peppers 4 cups water yet another organic and organic technique is kinda gross even if it extremely is stable sufficient to get into the organic and organic encyclopedia of gardening I examine lots: a blend (mixed and filtered) of the bugs and water, spray them on the flowers. What worked for me became a sprinkling of hearth ashes every time once I watered the squash. I did it each and every time and each and each plant lived. Now they're extremely massive and the bugs are no longer any trouble in any respect. (to maintain it organic and organic I consistently used clean organically grown o.ok.to burn and those wood ashes are organic from a hearth which isn't used for the chemically taken care of woods bought in shops) I had tried a mix of garlic and water and it did no longer something. I additionally tried a "bait crop" and that they have got been given eaten too straight away, even if it in basic terms approximately worked to detract the bugs to a diverse area on the plot. I planted seeds a million inch aside alongside the distant fringe of the plot the place i became unlikely to enhance squash. They went there and my meant squash had of undertaking to proceed to exist. quickly the bugs in basic terms figured it out and attacked the flowers. I even have additionally tried planting marigolds between each and each squash plant, they have been enormously and now they're very thankfully turning out to be however the bugs are nonetheless there. i'm going to have had the incorrect flower, or they could be proof against the marigolds. source(s): The encyclopedia for organic and organic gardening

Answer 4

Cut the top off of a plastic bottle, 1/4 cup strawberry jelly (cheap store brand), 1 cup water, mix and add to bottom of bottle. Invert top and tape (neck down) to bottom of bottle. Grass hoppers get in, but can't get out.

Domed things are "scale" can be removed with alcohol soaked cotton balls. Takes a while, but works.

Answer 5

The grasshopper-looking one is probably a cricket.

Answer 6

the little round one is an aphid. i have removed most of them by using a cup of crushed chilli's and water.

Answer 7

sounds like a cricket! spray with "bug-b-gon" and it will get rid of em! i use the bottle that attaches directly to ur hose, no mixing and guessing how much to apply... just spray!