{"id":749,"date":"2015-10-20T22:48:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T02:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onlinepestcontrol.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2016-10-01T06:13:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T13:13:37","slug":"controlling-grasshopper-pest-infestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepestcontrol.com\/controlling-grasshopper-pest-infestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling Grasshopper Pest Infestation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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These insects can cause total devastation if an area becomes overrun with an infestation. Grasshoppers are land insects that use their powerful back legs to jump quite high to get away from their predators. In some countries, grasshoppers are seen as part of a nutritious meal, but in most countries they are just seen as a pest because they can have a largely negative effect on crops. Grasshoppers are in their more mobile adult phase in the summer months that are the hottest, and they travel to each area in a swarm. Grasshoppers thrive in dry climates. This sometimes can compound on an existing problem for crops such as extremely dry soil. The invasion of grasshoppers is quite aggressive and rising heat plus lack of rain draws them into crops.<\/p>\n
Middle spring is normally when grasshoppers usually begin to hatch. If the weather is especially warm and especially dry, this facilitates an earlier hatching and the nymphs will thrive better. If there is a freeze in the late spring, this will disrupt the cycle and kill the young grasshoppers, and cloudy damp weather will do the same. Summers that are long and hot do provide the best environment for them to thrive, as well as go through an early maturing, and an extended egg-laying period. Summers that are relatively cool slow down the life cycle and shorten the time period for laying eggs. The life cycle for grasshoppers is egg, nymph (young adult), and adult grasshopper. If there is an infestation, it is during the nymph stage that action needs to be taken, that way they do not have the chance to lay eggs as an adult.<\/p>\n
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