One positive from way too much rain

[Fire Sweep Ranch]

So far here, nothing has killed them. I wage war every week, and NOTHING has even put a dent in the population! I wish I could just blow them up!!! It gives me great joy to shock them dead with the electric fence though....

 

[TXBobcat]

Seems a naturally occurring bacterium in the soil controls the grasshopper, but during a drought that bacterium moves deeper in the soil to find moisture, thus more grasshoppers during a drought.

Here's an intersting article I recently read regarding grasshoppers.

http://bosque.agrilife.org/2013/06/13/g ... festation/

 

[TexasBred]

Good to see you back TX.... just get out?? :cowboy:

 

[Chuckie]

TXBobcat,
I remember going to visit my brother in Dallas one year, and a drought had hit. The ground was cracked as they were showing in another post where you could not see the bottom. In his back yard, there were so many grasshoppers everywhere, dying against the house and the smell was awful. He was having to rake them up, but did not the two days that I was there. It was really odd to see that in the city limits.