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We and our neighbors are experiencing a invation of grasshoppers. A week or so a go we had thousands of tiny little ones. Now there are growing up. Our neighbors said they were out there with a shovel banging away at them. I used chemicals and it seemd to help. Those remaining are big enough that I use hedge clippers.
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David Scott Banghart
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4/30/2006 11:51:00 PM
4 comments:
They are harmless, no need to kill them. Actually, they are beneficial to the landscape. They eat "bad" bugs.
Baloney, they eat our plants.
I second that. These black and yellow insects strip large amounts of folliage off our plants. I can live with a little loss for the betterment of my karma, but these beasts take whole shrubs to the ground.
I kill them without using chemicals so as to leave the good bugs alone. (aka: clippers)
I just give them a good old fashion stoppin'.
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