Mormon Cricket Help & Pic
see: http://extension.usu.edu/hoppers/text.htm
Lawns, Gardens, and Landscaping-
The Tooele Valley is experiencing a huge growth. Homes
are being built on
lands that have produced grasshopper populations for
many years. This causes
problems for the home owner. Grasshoppers are hatching
and laying eggs in the
lawns and gardens. This makes it possible for the
grasshoppers to hatch on the
same lawn year after year. Grasshoppers are migrating
out of vacant fields and
low hills into the green, lawns and gardens. This
results in thousands of dollars in
damage to newly planted landscapes. It is very
important that communities work
together in controlling grasshopper outbreaks. If one
person is spraying, and
neighbors are not, then the grasshoppers will just
continue migrating from
adjacent property. Vacant lots and fields need to be
tilled in late fall to expose
the eggs. Eggs are destroyed when they are exposed to
the cold environment.
Lawns need to be raked to also expose the eggs. Flower
gardens usually have a
population of eggs, so the soil should be turned over
to expose the eggs. If there
is an outbreak of grasshoppers on your landscape
during the summer, start
spraying early. Once you see that grasshoppers have
invaded, even the little
ones, start spraying with Dursban (chlorpyrifos) for
use on turf and ornamentals,
Malathion for use on turf, ornamentals and vegetables,
or liquid Sevin (carbaryl)
for use on turf, vegetables, and ornamentals.
Insecticide baits that use insecticide such as Sevin
have not been an effective
barrier against the grasshoppers in Tooele County.
Grasshoppers fly and jump
great distances and more than likely will miss the
barrier of bait completely. This
bait is very effective for the Mormon crickets, common
to the southern end of the
county. READ AND FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON PESTICIDE
LABELS
FOR REGISTERED USES, RATES, RESTRICTIONS, AND SAFETY
PRECAUTIONS.
other links....
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ttic/tektran/data/000006/94/0000069410.html
The fungal pathogen, Beauveria bassiana, has recently
been registered by Mycotech Corporation
for use against not only Mormon crickets,
search results:
http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=%22mormon+cricket%22&hc=0&hs=0
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