Grasshoppers can be a significant threat to crops, gardens, and pastures, causing extensive damage when populations surge. Understanding their behavior, lifecycle, and effective control methods is essential for mitigating their impact. This article provides a comprehensive guide on grasshopper control, offering practical strategies and solutions.
There are 400 different kinds of grasshoppers in the United States, and most can thrive in northern Utah. Grasshoppers undergo simple metamorphosis, with three main stages: egg, nymph, and adult. Eggs are laid in the soil during the late summer and hatch in the spring. Nymphs resemble adults but are wingless and smaller. They molt several times before becoming adults, which is the most mobile and destructive stage.
Grasshoppers are best controlled chemically when they are in the nymph stage. This is because they don’t have wings which makes them less mobile. Once they reach the adult stage chemical products still work but because they can travel long distances it is easy for them to move to untreated areas.
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