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Question for Texas landowners
14 May 2013, 05:59
K EvansQuestion for Texas landowners
While checking game cameras and feeders today I noticed just about every bare spot in my pasture was covered with baby grasshoppers...thousands and thousands of baby grasshoppers. We had about 10 jillion grasshoppers two years ago, hope this year won't be a repeat. My question...has anyone else noticed this at their place?
Karl
Karl Evans
No hoppers here but I am 150 miles south of you.
For entertainment you might want to read the history of the Rocky Mountain locust.
It is the story about the largest plagues in history and why North America is the only inhabited continent without locust swarms.
14 May 2013, 08:27
NormanConquestNone here either + I am just north of Austin. I remember as a kid up in Wichita falls one summer they turned to locust due to weather conditions. Pretty scary.They ate everything from any crops in the field to our screen windows.
Never mistake motion for action.
15 May 2013, 00:07
K EvansI'd be happy to send you some...the last time we had them this bad (or so I assume based on the number of babies) they ate anything green, including mesquite leaves (which isn't really a bad thing) and would cover the openings to my deer feeders trying to get the corn. I don't care for cattle egrets either, but a swarm of them would be nice about right now, or maybe I could train my cows to eat grasshoppers.
Karl
Karl Evans
quote:
Originally posted by bigguy458:
I'd be happy to send you some...the last time we had them this bad (or so I assume based on the number of babies) they ate anything green, including mesquite leaves (which isn't really a bad thing) and would cover the openings to my deer feeders trying to get the corn. I don't care for cattle egrets either, but a swarm of them would be nice about right now, or maybe I could train my cows to eat grasshoppers.
Karl
The United Nations thinks people should eat more insects, maybe they'd finance a program to harvest them...
TomP
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15 May 2013, 15:36
swifter220I am just north of West and I have not seen any young hoppers...... yet. From your description, sounds like they may be congregated in small areas, good time to spray them.
By God, Woodrow; it's been one hell of a party.
Grasshoppers are just starting to show up at my brother's place between Dime Box and Giddings.
16 May 2013, 04:33
fla3006quote:
TomP: The United Nations thinks people should eat more insects, maybe they'd finance a program to harvest them.
When they are soaked in water, purged, then fried in oil, garlic, lime juice, salt and chiles, they are referred to as
chapulines by Mexicans.
Great with beer, cheladas, margaritas and guacamole. Available in 3 sizes in some mercados.
We get alot of grasshoppers every year at our place in South Texas, haven't tried cooking any yet.
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03 June 2013, 11:47
NormanConquestYears ago when I was just a helper in the A.C. industry,my lead man when checking out the condenser,would periodically grab a hopper,tear off the legs + eat them raw. Well, he was from the west side of San Antonio.
Never mistake motion for action.
03 June 2013, 17:41
K EvansWell, the little hoppers have all grown up. The place is covered with grasshoppers, I took a couple of cell phone pictures on Saturday of a couple of sections of wall on my cabin with hundreds of hoppers hanging on the walls and window screens...tried to post them but have so far been unable to get photobucket to cooperate. I'll try again later today.
Karl
Karl Evans
20 June 2013, 17:02
CrazyhorseconsultingSome others may not have them, but up here in Archer and Young counties we have, as was stated in the OP, millions. It has been that way the last three years. The only upside to the situation is that we have had some tremendous hatches of wild turkey and the survival rates have been excellent.
Even the rocks don't last forever.
21 June 2013, 00:36
arkypeteThink of them as a new crop. Scoop them up, dry them and sell them as bait. Maybe could freeze them for fresher form of bait.
I'd advise discussing this with the bride prior to using her stove or frig.
Jim
"Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force." --Thomas Jefferson
01 July 2013, 04:07
KenscoMy brother mentioned today that he has grasshoppers out the kazoo in Dime Box.