Hey, what's up everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. This is Kevin, fellow urban gardener.

Today we're talking about Leifhoppers, or Cicadelli Day, again with the butchering of Latin. I'm sorry.

Anyways, this is a pretty gnarly plant past that is quite annoying.

I remember growing up and loving these little bugs but now that I'm a

gardener I don't like them at all. So first of all what is a leafhopper? Well there are

20,000 different types. New varieties are being discovered every single year.

Some estimates put the potential number of leafhopper types at almost 100,000.

That's absolutely insane.

So needless to say, this is a family of many varieties but one thing to

consider they should not be confused with the plant hopper which is an entirely

different insect that looks quite similar and does the same sort of damage and there's

actually about 20,000 of those as well. So there are leafhoppers that are almost designed,

I guess by evolution that go after all varieties of plants,

that go after all varieties of plants,

ornamentals, weeds, trees, and of course

the things that we want them to eat the least

are fruits and our vegetables.

So here are a list of some of the worst

agricultural leaf hopper pests.

But again, it does not really even make a dent

in the total number of different types of leafhoppers.

First you've got the beet leaf hopper that is obviously going after those

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