Ready to go nuclear vs. grasshoppers ... Ecobran, maybe?

ltecato

ltecato

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I keep seeing BIG grasshoppers on my plants, and they eat like pigs, doing a lot of damage really quickly.

And they act like they are bulletproof. Just a few minutes ago I sprayed one with enough neem oil to kill a million spider mites but it just stayed there clinging to the plant it was eating. So then I got some insecticide soap to spray, and the grasshopper still acted like it didn't even notice. Finally had to cut it in half with a pruner.

I'd like to get some bait for the bastards. I read where something called Nolo is pathogen that makes them sick and eventually kills them but it looks like it is better for the younger ones and I'm fairly sure the ones I see in my garden are adults. So I'm thinking of something else called Ecobran, which contains the pesticide carbaryl, apparently, but supposedly in low-enough doses that birds won't be affected if they happen to eat the bait.

I'm really running out of patience with the grasshoppers. They are way too greedy.
 
too larry

too larry

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ltecato said:
I keep seeing BIG grasshoppers on my plants, and they eat like pigs, doing a lot of damage really quickly.

And they act like they are bulletproof. Just a few minutes ago I sprayed one with enough neem oil to kill a million spider mites but it just stayed there clinging to the plant it was eating. So then I got some insecticide soap to spray, and the grasshopper still acted like it didn't even notice. Finally had to cut it in half with a pruner.

I'd like to get some bait for the bastards. I read where something called Nolo is pathogen that makes them sick and eventually kills them but it looks like it is better for the younger ones and I'm fairly sure the ones I see in my garden are adults. So I'm thinking of something else called Ecobran, which contains the pesticide carbaryl, apparently, but supposedly in low-enough doses that birds won't be affected if they happen to eat the bait.

I'm really running out of patience with the grasshoppers. They are way too greedy.
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Here in NW Florida they are rough too. Pre-hurricane I had a little screen room I kept my young plants in. Once they were outdoors, they were on their on though.

There were worse on seedlings than anything else. I have lost 2-3 trays of seedlings in one night. That is with me spraying garden pesticide on all the bushes around them.
 
ltecato

ltecato

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I used to hang out on a forum about bromeliads. There was a big argument between Australian bromeliad fans because one guy lent or advanced some plants for some kind of show or exposition and never got them back. Turned out that a grasshopper swarm hit the town and the bastards ate every damn bromeliad at the plant show. The guy who had lent his plants thought the organizer just "lost" or stole them, didn't know about the plague of locusts.
 
too larry

too larry

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ltecato said:
I used to hang out on a forum about bromeliads. There was a big argument between Australian bromeliad fans because one guy lent or advanced some plants for some kind of show or exposition and never got them back. Turned out that a grasshopper swarm hit the town and the bastards ate every damn bromeliad at the plant show. The guy who had lent his plants thought the organizer just "lost" or stole them, didn't know about the plague of locusts.
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Winter before last when we burned the longleaf pines at the river field, the swarms of grasshoppers flying away from the fire were so thick they were making a shadow on the ground. This was February, after several frosts.
 
FresnoFarmer

FresnoFarmer

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10:1 water and molasses. You can make traps with the solution or spray them with it with a pump sprayer. It clogs their pores and suffocates them or some shit. It works. Also if you hatch a bunch of praying mantis eggs nearby they will go ape shit on the grasshoppers once large enough.
 
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