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I found a cloud of baby grasshoppers eating one of my milk-jug-covered tomatoes, today. I don't know that I'd ever seen grasshoppers eating tomatoes before (they must have hatched right under the milk jug and had nothing else to eat but the contents of the jug, unless they went out through the vent at the top, which they seemingly weren't doing). They usually just eat weeds and leave the garden alone (or if they do eat some of the garden, it's not much). To be fair, they were eating the weeds under the milk jug, too. Anyway, I lifted up the jug and waved my hand so they would all jump away (and they did).
I was pretty surprised to find them, though. |
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chickens love grasshoppers.
they like tomatoes too, just so ya know. keith |
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I have had them eat my tomatoes and garden alive.
They were so bad one year I put out Sevin Dust, The next day there was an inch of grasshoppers all over the ground maybe millions this is no BS it was biblical proportions. The whole garden was covered in them they became mulch they were so thick. Worth |
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We jut call them jumbo grass hoppers they are frigging huge. They migrate like they show on TV at times in the summer and run across the road. They will strip a rose bush over night. I learned a long time ago to mow away from the garden not towards it. Towards it drives them into the garden. I live in Africa as in Egypt in so many ways. ![]() Worth |
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We have native grasshoppers, and lots of them. There are more of them out in the pasture than around the garden. I think the birds that have nests nearby just take care of them.
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It seems the grasshoppers really get bad after a wet spring followed by a hot, dry summer. Last year we had intermittent rain throughout the summer and the lawns stayed green. I don't remember seeing a grasshopper. Most summers the grass is brown by mid July and it seems
grasshoppers are everywhere. |
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Whoa. I love toads. They eat bugs, and they're the reason I'm not overrun with stink bugs & etc. constantly. I have two tiny ponds, and in spring the American Toads start singing & making toadpoles. Got a mess o' toadpoles out there now. Okay, back to the old way of mulching...
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Grasshoppers are pretty rare around here - years go by and i don't see one. Got a pic of this guy last september, all by his lonesome, it seems.
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