Remember this post: Big Backyard Bugs? Wow time flies. Flyntster is seven now. OhMySweetPickles! He is still a cutie, though!
Well, they are back, the Eastern Lubber Grasshopper. This evening I went out to the garden to do a quick check before the sun went down. We have been battling the cucumber bug on our squash plants and they are out most in the morning and late evening. I could not find any of those nasty buggers, but I looked over at my oregano and saw THE HORROR!
I immediately ran in to get a bigger bucket of soapy water to put them in. I am still shivering at the fact I had to pick all those off by hand. Birdie and Flyntster did more squealing than I did, but my new bug hero is Bairno.
Bairno asked me why I was catching the gwasshoppers. I told him that they would ruin our entire garden if we did not get rid of them by putting them in the soapy water. He looked rather sad as he held one by its leg and stared at it up close and said, “But they will drown and die.” To which I replied, “If we do not get rid of them they will eat our garden up.” “OH NO THEY WILL NOT!” and then he threw it in the soapy water.
Seriously he was awesome at helping. He was the best Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (nymph stage) catcher I have ever seen. He helped me get them all off the oregano then sat and grabbed them as they came out of the ground. Out of the ground and into the soap bucket of death.
This was the third batch we’ve seen hatch and crawl out this year, but the only one that actually hatched in the garden. I hope there are no more.
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