Hey all,
Question for you backyard hop growers. I had a 5 foot healthy vine die about a month ago (turned brown and looked like insects got it) and have a couple more 3 and 4 foot first year bines coming up now.
I was out watering the yard and noticed 7 or 8 paper wasps over near my hop garden. I walked over and watched for a minute as 4 or 5 of them descended on one of my 3 footer's hop leaves and proceeded to eat about half the leaf and fly off.
I think I found the cause of my first vine dying and think the second and third are heading that way too. Has anyone every heard of paper-wasps liking hop leaves? Anything I can do about it, other than pesticides?
Question for you backyard hop growers. I had a 5 foot healthy vine die about a month ago (turned brown and looked like insects got it) and have a couple more 3 and 4 foot first year bines coming up now.
I was out watering the yard and noticed 7 or 8 paper wasps over near my hop garden. I walked over and watched for a minute as 4 or 5 of them descended on one of my 3 footer's hop leaves and proceeded to eat about half the leaf and fly off.
I think I found the cause of my first vine dying and think the second and third are heading that way too. Has anyone every heard of paper-wasps liking hop leaves? Anything I can do about it, other than pesticides?