Tiaja squeeze campaign

 With the last Xerophloea dead (a juvenile brown widow murdered it, even though I checked for brown widows a few days before that and found none) all I have left are the four Tiaja, which I've still not managed to get any eggs out of. Apparently white clovers freak out when taken indoors and gradually die from dehydration even when well watered, some quirk of the angiosperm root physiology I think.

They stay frightened for longer after handling than the Xerophloea did, sometimes freezing and then not feeding for a whole 12 hours after being moved, and since like many hoppers they don't actually know how to walk directionally towards their food it's been a headache (after the freezing wears off they tend to walk off the plant even if they were sitting on it).

Bought some more plants as potential food while I was exhibiting milkweed bugs at CalBG for their milkweed festival thingy. They didn't seem to like their new hosts much, I'm going to try feeding them an attached dodder now (previous dodder being fed was detached branches, which are more convenient to supply but cannot live long enough for eggs to hatch).