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I am in australia but expect you have them in the US too. I am dreading this seasons hatchings as they can decimate everything they fancy. lat year i had one almost 6 inches long munching the new citrus leaves. The birds take a few and the dogs flatten the plants attempting unsuccessfully to catch them. does anyone have a secret remedy or trap?
I live in New Mexico where the grasshoppers can grow quite large. I have many small ones in my garden but very few large ones, I think because I also have many, many fence lizards, a few Woodhouse toads, and two resident roadrunners. All those critters love grasshoppers. Roadrunners are not likely in Australia but are there any lizards that might like your garden? Or toads, other than the dreaded cane toad? To deal with the hoppers, you might look into ways to attract native reptiles and amphibians to your garden. Around here, all it seems to require is some sort of cover (I have the mystery pit---it's an abandoned, below-grade well enclosure---that the lizards live in) and a regular source of water. I think even overturned ceramic pots with a hole for a door will do for cover. As for water, I puddle irrigate in recessed beds and my neighbor has a garden pond that the toads breed in.
Several years ago here in Texas we had a terrible infestation of grasshoppers. I obtained some guinea fowl. They run loose and eat LOTS of grasshoppers. I still have some grasshoppers in bad years, but I think the damage is less than others I talk to who do not have guinea fowl. And, the grasshoppers do love citrus leaves, that I can attest to!
