[Market-farming] grasshoppers

Road's End Farm organic87 at frontiernet.net
Mon Jun 22 09:30:12 EDT 2009


On Jun 21, 2009, at 9:40 PM, sue roseman wrote:

> Hello from very hot wet MO,
> I am wondering if there is any NEW organic pesticide that works on 
> grasshoppers.  I have 1,000's of the little buggers that are happily 
> munching their way thru everything in sight. 
> I have already tried the NO-LO bait stuff and it is a big waste of my 
> money.  I have tried it for years now and still have lots and lots of 
> them.  So I am wondering if thru my browsing of catalogs I have missed 
> a new alternative .  I am ready to throw in the towel with all the 
> rain and hail and now this!  However 20 yrs of growing I will probably 
> just use it to cry in!
> Sue
> Zone 5_______________________________________________

Don't know if the below will be any help; but maybe it will give you 
some ideas. I've never had a significant grasshopper problem (maybe I 
should add the word "yet") though I certainly have lots of "weedy, 
undisturbed areas"; but I also have a high population of assorted 
natural predators, so maybe that's why; or maybe it's the local 
weather.

Is your "NO-LO" the "nosema locustae" they're talking about?  -- They 
do also mention a fungal control and a lot of cultural controls.

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/grasshopper.html

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale
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