I think this may be a species Crocosmia. Any one know more?
The corms were only planted last summer, so the flowers may be an immature version of what it may do next year. ( if it survives another year here ! )

Also, the holes in the foreground sweet potato plant appeared over night. Anyone know what might be doing that? Pillbugs :-0 ? Grasshopper bites are usually always off the edges such as on the background foliage.

Your Crocosmia is much darker than the ones naturalised in this country Maggie, wish I had it in my garden, and it looks healthy with good foliage. The holes in the other plant leaves look like weevil damage, or that made by tiny slugs or snails.

I would try the flour "poofed" underneath the leaves, Maggie. Do you have one of those poofers? They cost about a dollar and it's great for spreading powders without getting it on uneven and heavy where it shows. If the flour doesn't work within a day or two and you see more holes, I'd go for the BT.

Gail, where would one purchase a "poofer?"

I've been procastinating treating the poor things, so yous guys have shamed me into doing it today. It's so much easier to moan than to go do the chore en-it?! Since the grasshoppers seem to love the background plant, I moved my silly mingo next to it last week, in hopes of spooking them away when the breeze blew. Seems to help, now if it would just stay windy all day - for me AND the mingo!
Terry, 'Poof' doesn't translate here to the same as there ;-)

I bought my poofer at Redenta's but I believe Crowley Feed has them too.

Maggie, uuuuuhhhh, WHAT does Poof translate to? Will it get us into one of our x-rated forum discussions?

Maggie, don't you want to borrow some of my baby turkeys to eat the bugs?

O.K. I want to know what a "Poofer" is in merry ole England??????

You should have put GAY ole England, David, then you would have been spot on.

As clever as usual, T! I was wondering how to get out of answering that, then decided to rely on your good wit to take care of it,,, and I wasn't disappointed.

David, see the plant behind the orange blooms - it is the 'pumpkin on a stick' we got at the campus. I found the real name and never made note,, but anyway, the 'pumpkins' were coming along so cute til the grasshoppers ate them. Have put flour on it now and am waiting to see grasshoppers with glued mouths!

What a good idea Caro, I bet one baby turkey would finish up what the sparrows don't eat. Shall we do it??? I wonder if it would be brilliant enough to fall in pool? The water's so hot we could have boiled turkey for dinner.

I have discovered that turkeys can, in fact, SWIM!!!

The past couple of months, I was worried sick that the turkeys would drown if they fell in the end of the pool that doesn't have steps out. The other day, sure enough, a turkey was in the wrong end of the pool, and I realized it was just swimming along...paddling and floating just like a goose!

I could lend you 2 of the smaller ones. We wouldn't want them to get lonesome. These haven't learned about dust baths (= holes in flower beds), and it will be about another 3 weeks to a month before they do.

Let me know if you are serious and I'll bring them next time I come to town. (Terry, don't I sound like a country girl?)

Yessum ma'am, that yer does fur shore. Good thing too, don't think the city folks would appreciate your livestock for close neighbours (they don't know what they are missing).

He's had the Anglo/American dictionary out again ;-)

I'm not coming in to town until Tues, so be sure to let me know if you want the babies.

I think Maggie is going to "chicken" out, Carolyn, she knows those beaks like plants as well as hoppers.

Either those hoppers got wind of our foul fowl plan, or they've all left with their gobs shut. I can't believe it - THERES NOT ONE OUT THERE TODAY. stay tuned Caro, they may be back before Tues.
And the DE fixed the sweet potato vine. Still don't know what was eating it, but there's not one hole on the new growth. That stuff sure grows fast.

I've realized why the excess of grasshoppers have disappeared! But the explaination comes with a pic that I'll post on my Creatures thread.