cas3439
Well-Known Member
This is my 3rd year Chinook (I have other varieties in the Hop Field). This thing has always produced huge leaves and now this year the side shoots are longer than my arms! While I was checking them out, I notice a bunch of Daddy Long Legs (aka Harvestmen, or Opiliones). I wasn't sure if they were harmful or not so I looked them up and was delighted to see some of their appetite quenchers. "Average harvestmen eat a wide variety of foods, including: aphids, caterpillars, beetles, flies, mites, small slugs, snails, earthworms, spiders, other harvestmen, decaying plant and animal matter, bird droppings and fungi." Needless to say, I wont be getting rid of them.