Gary Reeder
We have a gazillion grasshoppers infesting our
Friday, August 23, 2024, 14:32

yards. These things are everywhere. I know the people in the know said they were coming but damn they are everywhere. And they are not the little 1" hoppers. These are the length of your middle finger. Stick your middle finger up and that is the size of these grasshoppers. Unless you plan to show that finger to someone special you can put it away now.

Some of these critters are in the middle of sex when I bother them. I hate to bother them during sex but life is a bitch.I go out and in about 5 minutes have 50 of the annoying little bastidges. My chickens love it when I pitch a handful over the fence to them. Even our Jack Russells try to catch them.
The people that predicted them don't call them grasshoppers but they sure look like a grasshopper to me. They say they come about every few years and they said back in the early spring that they were coming. Maybe they will figure out a way to get these things to leave town or at least go to somebody else's yard.