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My word, I have never seen so many grasshoppers in 33 years of living here (southern NJ). As I walk through my yard, they fly/jump up in front of me by the dozen. Mowing the lawn got interesting, too! A large adult jumped up on my neck as I was mowing the lawn this morning. Yuck.
Anyone else seeing a lot of grasshoppers? I wonder what it is about this year that has made them so plentiful.
More than in other recent years, but not exactly a plague (yet).
Populations fluctuate according to environmental factors like weather or food supply, but also have fluctuations peculiar to the species-- the cycle of the 17- yr cicada being an extreme example.
Not that May but I've been killing them with my bare hands everyday, especially the young ones. I also have a few praying mantis in my yard, they devour the grasshoppers. But I still see some of my leaves are eaten by something, so I don't think they have been eradicated from my yard. My previous yard, I had none. It's a truffle to deal with them.
We have plenty of mantises, too, but the grasshoppers -- juvenile and adult -- just plain outnumber the mantises, but quite a margin.
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