well, as you can imagine, they are jumpy and spread out in a circle rather quickly. spiders will lurk, but not grasshoppers. spraying them wouldn't help and they don't sweep up well. you gotta catch 'em all.
this was just an explosion of large aphids. I brought in some plants when it iced and have left them in the laundry room. the bugs most have exploded out of their sticky pods within the last few hours. it wasn't anything that a broom, vacuum and windex couldn't fix. there were easily 1000's of them though.
I've been plagued by grasshoppers twice, spiders once and now these little bastards.
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