Grasshoppers, anyone????

[Hanta Yo]

I took some time to take some pics, next three pics are of hoppers in the grass

They ate the lilac bushes :x

They ate the honeysuckle bushes

I got mad at them...they were on the honeysuckle bushes yesterday, leaves almost gone and you couldn't find a single branch because they were covered with the #*&@#$^& and I didn't have the camera on hand so I sprayed them :twisted: As I sprayed them they were falling off the branches. This area covers about 6 square inches of the dead things :evil:

Here they ate another tree :evil:

About 10 years ago we had the same problem....I had to water the bushes hard so they wouldn't die. Believe it or not, the lilacs bloomed in September

 

[I Luv Herfrds]

Dang things.
Need to have some chickens and turkeys Hanto, mine love the hoppers. Nothing funnier then watching turkeys and fat hens chase them around the yard.

 

[ranch hand]

That probably wasn't a good idea to spray them in the lawn. Others will come in and eat them and die and then the stink begins.

 

[Faster horses]

Hanta, that is just a SHAME. I feel bad for you.
Darn grasshoppers, you can put them in a jar and freeze them
and when they thaw out, they'll hop off.

GRRRRRRR.

 

[MsSage]

Im sorry about your bushes.....hopefuly you can bring them back again.
Grasshoppers seem to be bad this year.

 

[Hanta Yo]

That probably wasn't a good idea to spray them in the lawn. Others will come in and eat them and die and then the stink begins.

That's where all the hoppers are now, in the yard (besides my garden) I don't use anything radical so I won't have that problem. 10 years ago we got Furadan (now off the market). It killed the hoppers plus the birds that ate those hoppers. Only saw a dead bird or two in the yard and felt bad for them. I guess that's why it's off the market but it was effective the hoppers seemed to stay outside of the perimeter we sprayed.

 

[Hanta Yo]

Dang things.
Need to have some chickens and turkeys Hanto, mine love the hoppers. Nothing funnier then watching turkeys and fat hens chase them around the yard.

Yup, it's fun watching the blackbirds jump up and catch them. For this nmber of hoppers I'd have to have a LOT of turkeys and chickens! For every hopper that gets eaten or dies, 20 takes its place :shock: They seem to have moved in here by droves since the flooding last Friday night.

 

[Northern Rancher]

Just reading 'Lonesome Dove' you can fry them up and dip them in molasses-I'll try them if you do lol.

 

[Hanta Yo]

Just reading 'Lonesome Dove' you can fry them up and dip them in molasses-I'll try them if you do lol.

I remember that. What if I take you up on it? Nah, I don't think so

 

[Northern Rancher]

I'm serious...