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| Pissonotus-generating telegraphweeds by the side of the road |
Kinda surprised the former were able to survive on such low-growing plants, I'm under the vague impression a lot of herbivorous bugs in my area avoid plants that're short and prostrate because it's too hot near the ground. I mean even that thing Xerophloea and co. do where they go to the base of the plant to feed doesn't mean they'll show up on juvenile plants, in nature it tends to just bring them into the shaded undergrowth of their host. I've never seen hoppers of any sort on sufficiently young Croton (or, indeed, sufficiently small individuals of almost every other plant. Santa Fe's rich diversity of annual flora hardly attracts any herbivores as far as I've seen).
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