I catch them and quickly break their heads off.

How do you deal with grasshoppers?

But they DO have to die!

When I kept lizards, I collected them for lizard treats. LOL

wanda

Other techniques are too crunchy for me.

Holedigger: they're too slovenly to chew in a straight line. They just rip through leaves like a bunch of pigs.

I try to step on them but they always seem to be one step ahead of me!!

coronabarb, who isn't bug phobic but REALLY hates grasshoppers, especially the big brown ones

Grasshoppers are my phobia. And don't cha' know I can always spot them when I am out gardening.

Yes, the chickens do fight for them. Very gross, I can't watch!

Good thing the 'Grasshopper Police' haven't read this thread, huh?

At my place, grasshoppers and katydids are given an opportunity to meet my bypass clippers. SNIP!

I have a Robin's nest in my yard now. I can`t wait to see if the mother will take one of the bodies up to the nest to feed the babies. She`s just been digging up worms so far.

The serious damage in my garden comes from snails and slugs, but after 4 years of picking, they are under control.

So far I haven't seen any major damage, some munched leaves on my lemon tree...

All native species, from plants to top predators, are biological diversity and are the living components that create, sustain, support and maintain Earth's ecosystems. The National Acadmey of Scientists, "The extinction of biological diversity is a threat to civilization second only to thermonuclear war."

So, be careful what you behead as it could be a team/community member of your own "life-support systems". Also, grasshoppers are in the food chain with native birds, reptiles and amphibians. If not for biological diversity, there would be no ecosystems. If not for ecosystems i.e., man and Earth's fresh water and oxygen factories, man would die and so would Earth. If you want your soil living, you might give some consideration as to what is a strand in the web of all life. tessyt, an ecological literate

coronabarb

What has given me the most difficulty is the introduced French esgargot and slugs. As introduced, non-native, unnatural species have left their checks and balances back in their homeland's ecosystems, they push native species extinct. So, I am assuming the slugs in my area are non-natives. However, I have never had to resort to deadly snail bait. I have not seen a native ant on my property in many long years; the non-native Argentina ants have pushed them extinct.

Nor, have I seen our native snail and grasshopper in about fifteen years. The ecosystem in my canyon is dying. Non-native, unnatural, introduced species are not biological diversity, nor do they perform a job for USA's natural ecosystems.

Any agent that kills biological diversity, kills ecosystems; any agent that kills ecosystems, kills Earth. Have fun gardening. ps Have never heard of anyone enjoying frying grasshoppers. That's a new one. LOL tessyt

So, I guess the critters I keep are a good insecticide. I just wish they'd go to work on the snails...

grasshoppers make nice bait for fish. I have a pond with a big koi and she takes no prisoners floating in the water alive.

Lee

pick off and flick to another part of the yard. The older I get the guiltier I feel about killing the wildlife.

Snails – We have quite an opossum population here and they love to eat snails. I’ve watched them at night searching the sides of pots for them. They leave the shells, a lot of times intact, so maybe they suck them out or use their tongue?

I never garden in the early morning, so when I see them, they're super fast and never easily squashed. Even if I were able to catch them, I don't think I could tear their head off. Ugh.

But the bottom line is they are widespread in my neighborhood, horrifyingly HUGE, prolific egg layers and each and every one of them is more than capable of eating the indiscriminate crap out of anything in any of my gardens.

I don't like killing things, and I don't like poison, but I really hate those creepy-ass, destructive grasshoppers.