LEAFY SPURGE

Leafy  Spurge

Growth Habit: Perennial, erect, up to 3' tall, spreading by seed or creeping roots.

Leaves: Alternate, long, narrow, ΒΌ" wide and 2" long, usually drooping.

Flowers: Inconspicuous, surrounded by large heart shaped floral leaves which turn yellow-green near maturity.

 

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Mormon Crickets are infrequent visitor to Fremont County

by Lars Baker


Mormon Cricket


Mormon Crickets are big insects that have a reputation for destruction. Fortunately we seldom see them in large numbers. They can be seen on rangeland sites just west of Ft. Washakie and in the Owl Creek Mountains north of Pavillion every few years, but they seldom come on to crop lands like they do in the Big Horn Mountains. The USDA/APHIS monitors these hot spots every year, but we have never had a control program as they do little damage on rangeland, mostly eating weeds.

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Mormon Cricket Information

Field Guide
(University of Nevada Cooperative Extention)

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