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Seedfork said:@mystlw
What a beautiful photo. I want those spiders in my garden...lots of those.

The interesting thing is, I've also been seeing frequent hornets in my beds, which is something I've never seen before; it makes sense now that they might be after the Leaf Miners.

Seedfork said:I was just reading about using sticky traps for them, I am considering making my own. Pulling leaves might be an option when they are only a few damaged, but in my garden that would be too large of a task. I often see it recommended to pull leaves, for leaf miners, to pull leaves for leaf streak and for rust. So as I've said before that would leave no leaves on the plants here.

Do you have a link to instructions for making your own? Would it be similar to hanging those sticky fly strips on stakes? (I'm wondering if it could be as easy as that.) I'm in the same situation here, if I start pulling leaves I'll end up with empty crowns. And I have a lot of plants that are newly arrived and potted, which are still dying back.

Seedfork said:I deal with all those problems here, and as depressing and challenging as it is, it is the critter damage that really gets to me.

My daylilies are a great source of comfort for me; I'm finding all of these challenges at once somewhat difficult to cope with. I don't like to see them struggling.