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Grasshoppers Part II

Hanta Yo

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I'm sure you are all sick and tired of my hopper pics. I don't blame you. I am just venting. Here are a few more pics then I will drop the subject. Thanks for being such good sports :)

Hoppers in my 4 O'clocks doggone them anyway :mad:

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Another view: :mad:

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They're eating the Mock Orange bush :mad:

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This morning before going our separate ways doing different ranch jobs I saw this from a long ways away, disgusting :mad:

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They ate the lilacs in the back yard now they are working in the front yard :mad: :mad: Got them sprayed. With the flooding we had we were hoping the grasshoppers would drown...NOT...they seem to have congregated in our yard, garden and bushes in more numbers than before.

OK I'm done venting.
 

James

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We have them pretty bad here too, been a long time since I have seen them as bad as they are working on the wifes garden, they have a tomato about half eaten hope we can have one or two don't seem to bother the zucchini plant
 

Hanta Yo

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James said:
We have them pretty bad here too, been a long time since I have seen them as bad as they are working on the wifes garden, they have a tomato about half eaten hope we can have one or two don't seem to bother the zucchini plant

They haven't eaten our zuchs either, nor our tomato plants (KNOCK ON WOOD). They have eaten peppers, chilis, melon plants, potatoes, onions, peas, grass, lilacs, mock orange bushes, paint off houses, each other, etc. I'm SICK of them! Last year, fires. This year floods and hoppers, what's next? I hope not famine.
 

MsSage

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You forgot frogs............
Im sorry they are bugging you so bad.....they will be gone and I hope before they do too much more damage.
Keep venting thats what we are here for :D
 

Cal

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I'm worried about how bad they might be next year. I understand that, with all of the snow cover, last years cold temperatures didn't kill the number of eggs that usually freeze.
 

Hanta Yo

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We've found a natural killer bait for grasshoppers and I will get some early next year and bait them.

www.planetnatral.com

This gives some information on the bait, it is a protozoan that kills grasshoppers - Nosema Locustae. $16.00 will do an acre....I plan to bait on the periphery before it gets too green next year. I'm thinking of doing it now, I also understand the shelf life for the bait is short.
 

katrina

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Get some grasshopper spore.... It's all natural. A pound will do an acre.. Let me know if you need a number... Not only will it kill grasshoppers this year, but will decrease the eggs and because grasshoppers are carnivars they eat the dead ones and die too.. It works I've used it for years....
 

Frank in West Dakota

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Hanta Yo said:
I'm sure you are all sick and tired of my hopper pics. I don't blame you. I am just venting. Here are a few more pics then I will drop the subject. Thanks for being such good sports :)
OK I'm done venting.

I won't get sick of lookin' at 'em, as long as I'm not takin' the picture! :p
Sorry for your problems, hope they don't migrate east! :???:
 

ranch hand

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We have grasshoppers and deer working on the yard. What the deer don't get the grasshoppers do. Creeks are really green and draws, but the deer have to come the yard that has a high fence. They got the young trees, leafed out again and got them the 2nd time. The deer got the corn, tomatoes, flowers but left the zuccinni.
 

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