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DENVER — When you're outside this summer, it's hard not to notice all the grasshoppers. If that wasn't frustrating enough for farmers and gardeners, there's another creepy crawler to look out for.
"Blister beetle larva tend to feed on grasshopper eggs, which can be a benefit for grasshopper control. But blister beetles also come with their own sets of nuances," said Lisa Mason, Horticulture Specialist & Entomologist for Colorado State University Extension in Arapahoe County."They have a substance called Cantharidin in which is high irritant and can highly irritate your skin if you touch them.
Trela Phelps, the general manager at City Floral Garden Center in Denver, said it might not be likely to start seeing them in the metro. "For us in the city, everything's kind of tidy. You don't have really tall grasses and things like that that attract them. So hopefully, knock on wood, we won't," Phelps said."Sevin in a spray that most people will use for any kind of chewing insect that's in vegetables, It's safe for vegetables, flowers, all that type of stuff," she said,"Diatomaceous earth, which is another. A lot of people consider this more of an organic type of treatment.
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