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Here's an article on how grasshoppers are being used as 
climate change scouts:
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/grasshoppers-are-recruited-climate-change-scouts

That's one interesting looking grasshopper you've got! We 
don't have anything like that here. I did photograph a 
beautiful rainbow grasshopper in New Mexico once. Maybe 
there is some kind of micro climate difference between you 
and the folks on the other side of the loop?

Yes, the slugs (big 4" garden variety slugs) showed up in 
my kitchen during the rain *before* we knew it would rain 
enough to cause a flood. During these two floods the river 
rose 47 feet above it's normal depth quite suddenly (about 
an hour or so). An old timer told me he watches for snails 
crawling up the side of his barn. When we are having a 
flood, the locals say "the river is coming down" (not up) 
because it's always like a wall of water coming down like 
a bowling ball through the canyon carrying trees, 
livestock, cabins, cars. I am half a mile from the river 
but suddenly had river front property with a class V rapid 
in front of my driveway on these occasions. How could 
these slow little beings know to seek safety so early?

There's a whole lot of wisdom out there if we could 
reconnect with it. What Buhner is doing with plants could 
be applied to all living things: Listen and they will 
teach us.

--Sage


On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:30:04 -0400
 EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> We have these huge Eastern Lubber grasshoppers here. 

> While I find 5-10 of them in my yard and driveway-living 
> property area
> every year, the folks on the other side of the loop, a 
> mile away, are
> overrun with them, and this population is not found in 
> town or once you
> get out of this little valley.  I often wonder what it 
> is about right
> here that they like.  Is it some plant that doesn't grow 
> anywhere else?
>   Fewer cats/predators?

> I know what you are talking about, even though I haven't 
> heard the slug
> story.
>
> Bev
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