I Didn't Know That My Hibiscus Petals Make Delicious Salad

Few mornings ago, I was watering my plants as usual. As I reached the end of my garden to water the Hibiscus plants, I noticed that one of the yellow hibiscus flower bud had a gaping hole.

I took a closer look and it seemed that something has bitten off the petals of this flower bud. It has also taken a bite off the other smaller flower bud, as you can see from the above picture.

I started to look for the culprit and then I spotted this yellow faced hopper looking at me from behind the hibiscus leaves. It looked like it was giving me a wide grin.

I quickly took a snapshot of this cheeky grinning face.

The grinning hopper then moved further behind a leaf.
Can you see the jagged edges of the leaf it was clinging to?
It must have chewed on it too.

Then it started to climb up the hibiscus plant until it reached the top.

I thought it will fly away but it didn't.

It just perched up there watching my every movement.

Then it moved down and turned its back towards me.

Then it moved again to try to hide itself behind the hibiscus stem.

When I turned the water spray on it, off it went to cling onto this Japanese Bamboo plant some distance away.

The next morning, I noticed that the hopper came back to finish off most of the Hibiscus petals, leaving behind the style and stigma of the flower. It must have found the petals delicious to be eaten as salad!

At least, it didn't chewed up all the flowers.

It left behind one for me to enjoy a blooming Hibiscus flower.

The next day, I saw the hopper perched on the winged beans plant that is next to the Hibiscus plants. I suppose it couldn't go far because it has lost one of its hind legs or that it finds my Hibiscus flowers delicious and irresistible.

Linking to Saturday's Critters.

But remember this -

the wrong desires that come into your life aren't anything new and different.

Many others have faced exactly the same problems before you.

And no temptation is irresistible. You can trust God to keep the

temptation from becoming so strong that you can't stand up against it,

for he has promised this and will do what he says.

He will show you how to escape temptation's power

so that you can bear up patiently against it.

(1 Corinthians 10:13, The Living Bible-TLB)