Locusts or grasshoppers? Either way they need to go!

Big Sky Redneck

At first I thought these were grasshoppers but a little checking shows they may be locusts. I?ve never seen an invasion this bad, we have been overrun. Mowing helps but they are back in a day or two, they are all over the buildings, you have to bang on the doors before opening them or they will get inside. They have been here over a month, birds are helping and are ignoring them. Short of spiking my yard with diesel fuel what options do I have? This really needs to change, can?t let the kids outside, the ground just erupts as you walk along, help.



Ground eruption

https://youtu.be/9V1Syt4W2MY

Chief Shaway

A flock of guineas or geese.

hillbille

they don't look like the locust we have around here, usually locust have large wings, more like a grasshopper to me, should make good fishing bait........

gearheaddad

hillbille wrote:

they don't look like the locust we have around here, usually locust have large wings, more like a grasshopper to me, should make good fishing bait........

I agree.
Maybe release a couple dozen Trout in the yard.......

hillbille

gearheaddad wrote:

hillbille wrote:

they don't look like the locust we have around here, usually locust have large wings, more like a grasshopper to me, should make good fishing bait........

I agree.
Maybe release a couple dozen Trout in the yard.......

maybe grass carp???????

Grasshopper

Dozen guineas will wipe them out. But if you want to spray use Bifenthrin pesticide. TSC has it called COMPARE & SAVE -INDOOR/OUTDOOR -INSECT CONCENTRATE. It will wipe them out and about every other creature in the lawn.

He Dog

It is called a military grasshopper. Some years the numbers can be large. No locusts in the US, though some call the cicada a locust. Locusts are simply grasshoppers that form huge nomadic flights of millions of insects.

diver-rig

I agree with others above. You need some yard birds. Guineas or plain ole chickens.

Old-Colts

diver-rig wrote:

I agree with others above. You need some yard birds. Guineas or plain ole chickens.

I would go with Guineas; I hear they also make great watchdogs!!!!!

TRAP55

The "yard goblins" you blasted would be feasting right now.

yoshmyster

.410 loaded with rock salt or 12 but they need to be thick to get the Punt Gun action.

TRAP55

Get the girls a pair of these and cut em loose!
https://www.bugasalt.com/products/bug-a-salt-3-0-black-fly-edition

Big Sky Redneck

Grasshopper wrote:

Dozen guineas will wipe them out. But if you want to spray use Bifenthrin pesticide. TSC has it called COMPARE & SAVE -INDOOR/OUTDOOR -INSECT CONCENTRATE. It will wipe them out and about every other creature in the lawn.

Sounds like a visit to Idahobounds store is in order, thanks!

Big Sky Redneck

TRAP55 wrote:

Get the girls a pair of these and cut em loose!
https://www.bugasalt.com/products/bug-a-salt-3-0-black-fly-edition

Thought about that, already told them to catch as many as they can but they swarm and scare the poor kiddies.

And those yard goblins, the barn cats took care of those along with my bunnies

hillbille

Big Sky Redneck wrote:

TRAP55 wrote:

Get the girls a pair of these and cut em loose!
https://www.bugasalt.com/products/bug-a-salt-3-0-black-fly-edition

Thought about that, already told them to catch as many as they can but they swarm and scare the poor kiddies.

And those yard goblins, the barn cats took care of those along with my bunnies

we had an old lady in neighborhood growing up none of us kids liked, we used to feed her cat grasshoppers it gave it the squirts, she made the mistake of telling us not to feed them to her cat once, I know that old lady had to hate the whole neighborhood am sure she was glad to see us graduate and move on...........

11b6r

Wake me up when there is a plague of frogs, rivers turning to blood, etc.

mac10

when I was a kid we netted them and sold to fisherman

diver-rig

mac10 wrote:

when I was a kid we netted them and sold to fisherman

Did you attach an old chair to the fender of an old truck, have your buddy Eddie sit in said chair, and drive down dirt roads while holding a net?

Heard it?s a great way to catch grasshoppers

buschmaster

flamethrower

TRAP55

Seagulls?

Smitty500mag

When I was a youngster I used grasshoppers to catch Shad with and the Shad were used for cut-bait for my trotlines that I put out on the three rivers where I lived...the French Broad, Holston and Tennessee River.

I would use a hook without a sinker with a small float attached to the line about 18" above the hook that was baited with the grasshopper. In the summer on the Holston River when the water was dead still with no wind blowing I would wait for a Shad to just nose the top of the water where it made a little ripple. I would then cast as close as I could get to where that spot was and about 2 out of 5 times I would catch a Shad when all the conditions were right. They would break the water like a bass on the line though not as strong. They were fun to catch on a light spinning reel and rod.

Cut-bait was all I ever used them for because they were a boney smelly fish. One old man near where we lived on the river used to scale them and then pressure cook them and make patties out of them bones and all like Salmon paddies but I never had the urge to try it.

discusdad

sea gulls saved the Mormons from the grasshopper swarms. import some mormons then call the birds