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Millet:
This summer the grasshoppers have been terrible here in Colorado.  They must be getting into the greenhouse through the exhaust vents.  They have been eating on the levees.  I kill them as I ketch them.  This year is the worst infestation I have ever seen.

Tropheus76:
Really? I have never noticed grasshoppers here in FL bothering my citrus trees. I have all kinds and colors of them I see when I mow the grass. I figured the leaves were too tough for them or they just didnt like leaf minered leaves.

christianmom:
Millet,  we got grasshoppers in Texas at the moment. They actually ate some of my Meyer lemon leaves. They are particularly large locusts this year and in large numbers. Where I live we've had drought for a couple of years nonstop, perhaps God reminding us we are but sinners who need to repent. I don't remember the last time we were not on water restrictions.

sea4:
We have large ones that are very quick to fly away. Hard to catch. And they eat everything. All my plants are open to the elements; not sure what predators these grasshoppers have but they need to work harder. They are also so voracious that they can decimate the plants quickly.

Daintree:
Ugh! They eat everything!
You are at least lucky you only get grasshoppers.
We get Mormon crickets, too.
When they are done eating every plant in sight, then they turn cannibal and eat each other.
In a really bad year, the roads get so slick with their squashed bodies that there have been motorcycle accidents when riders hit a patch. They can't fly, thank God!!! You can't "shoo" them, though. They chase you and bite you! Bleh.

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