{"id":7695,"date":"2017-06-29T08:48:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T23:02:43","slug":"sharpshooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/sharpshooter\/","title":{"rendered":"Insects in the Garden &#8211; The Good, the Bad, and the Interesting | Sharpshooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_image_0 et_pb_image et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7698\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/sharpshooter\/sharpshooter-main-17june28-d-003\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sharpshooter-main-17june28-d-003.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"sharpshooter main 17june28 d 003\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sharpshooter-main-17june28-d-003.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sharpshooter-main-17june28-d-003.jpg?resize=800%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" title=\"sharpshooter main 17june28 d 003\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sharpshooter-main-17june28-d-003.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sharpshooter-main-17june28-d-003.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sharpshooter-main-17june28-d-003.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sharpshooter-main-17june28-d-003.jpg?resize=150%2C100&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" class=\"wp-image-7698\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>I discovered Black Swallowtail Caterpillars on the fennel plants along a walkway in our back courtyard. With the enthusiasm and excitement of a child on Christmas morning, I began the daily, sometimes hourly, task of photo and video documentation of the changes from caterpillars to beautiful butterflies.<\/p>\n<p>When viewing the photos and videos after the sessions, I would discover other types of insects hanging out with the caterpillars. In one of the photos, I found a strange little creature that looked like a cross between a frog and a grasshopper. Displaying beautiful wings of blue and a golden brown body, I kept my fingers crossed that it would be a beneficial insect for the garden. I researched the internet and sought help from the Facebook Group \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/Insect.Identification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Insect Identification<\/a>.\" It is one of my favorite groups on FB; knowledgeable, responsive to questions at any level, and the admins maintain the purpose of the group in a professional manner. The little insect was quickly identified as a \"sharpshooter.\"<\/p>\n<p>Armed with a name, I continued my internet research to learn about the new garden visitor.<\/p>\n<h3>Sharpshooter Identification and Facts<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>Sharpshooter<\/strong> is a type of <strong>Leafhopper<\/strong> insect that sucks plant juices from common host plants including potatoes, beans, lettuce, grapes, roses, and many more. These small insects have piercing mouth-parts that enable them to feed on the sap from the leaves and stems of\u00a0a host plant.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Food Source: <\/strong>The food source for the leafhopper is plant sap. Some research indicates that they will also eat aphids.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life cycle: <\/strong>They live only a few months.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Communication: <\/strong>Adult males seek out females for mating by the use of vibrations or mating sounds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Concerns: <\/strong>Bacteria that it passes from plant to plant. Also, destruction of the stems of the plant as the sharpshooter sucks the life out of the plant.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Natural Control: <\/strong>Food source for birds, lizards, ladybugs, spiders, assassin bugs, flies, and some species of wasp.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benefits: <\/strong>NONE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>RATING: <\/strong>Bad bug in the garden!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sharpshooter is a type of Leafhopper insect that sucks plant juices from common host plants including potatoes, beans, lettuce, grapes, roses and many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[183,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-garden-pests","category-gardening"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Insects in the Garden - The Good, the Bad, and the Interesting | Sharpshooter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Sharpshooter is a type of Leafhopper insect that sucks plant juices from host plants by piercing the plant stem or leaves with their mouth-piercing parts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/sharpshooter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Insects in the Garden: The Good, Bad, and Interesting | Sharpshooters\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Sharpshooter is a type of Leafhopper insect that sucks plant juices from common host plants including potatoes, beans, lettuce, grapes, roses and many more.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/sharpshooter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sandi Herron - Life at Spring Meadows\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-29T13:48:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-07-21T23:02:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandiherron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sharpshooter-fb-17june28-d-003.jpg?fit=1200%2C638&ssl=1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"638\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sandi Herron. 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