How do you get rid of Grasshoppers/Locusts??
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Grasshoppers? How About A Plague of Locusts
Comments (6)Reed, We have had that in some drought years. At our house, 2003 (with less than 19" of rain that year) was the worst. It was similar in damage to what your grandparents had. It was pretty bad here in 2011, but was worse at Dorothy's and George's places in NE OK in 2012. We always get the traveling hordes of them in July-August. They just move in one day by the hundreds or thousands and eat everything. Still, I've never seen or even imagined 30 million. IN 2003, they ate our fiberglass window screens, and the rag rugs on the wraparound porch after they'd eaten every living thing they could find. That year they stripped bark off fruit trees and ate the fruit off the trees before they could ripen. A couple of years ago they were stripping every leaf off every tomato plant in the Peter Rabbit garden. Nowadays I only plant cool season plants in the Peter Rabbit garden because it is directly adjacent to the neighbor's pasture and when the weather gets hot and that pasture dries out, all the insects and snakes just move to the Peter Rabbit Garden, and then the insects demolish it and the snakes take all the fun out of the garden for me. We went to some wild fires in the Thackerville area and in western Love County last year where I know I saw grasshopper numbers 10 times higher than what we were seeing on our property, so I stopped feeling sorry for myself when I saw it was worse in other parts of the county. I normally put out Semaspore when I see the hoppers are about 1/4" long roughly in April of most years, and that helps a lot with the local ones that are hatching. Of course, it doesn't do a thing for the full-sized ones that migrate in hordes later in the season. When we had guineas, they controlled the hoppers really well, but we haven't had guineas since a big predator outbreak wiped out all the poultry in our neighborhood several years ago. We have chickens and they do a reasonable job, but they don't eat nearly as many grasshoppers per day as the guineas used to. However, the chickens stick around close to the house when they are free-ranging and don't roam as far and wide as the guineas did. When we lived in town, I might see a grasshopper or two a day in our yard. Out here in the sticks, you cannot even count them all some years. It is one of my least favorite things about living in the country. When we start seeing more than about 10 per square yard, the damage they are doing becomes really obvious. Dawn...See MoreThe 2010 Grasshopper/Locust Infestation
Comments (11)Susan, I spread the Nolo Bait when I am seeing hoppers that are between 1/4" and 1/2" in length because it is most effective on them when they are that size. Usually, for us here in southern OK, hoppers are in that size range sometime in the last two weeks of April or in May. When you buy any product containing Nosema locustae, always check the package for a 'packed on' or 'use by' date and make sure it is not out-of-date. It only retains viability for a few months. Once you open a package, if you don't use it all, store in in a refrigerator and keep it viable for a few more weeks that way. I often see Nolo Bait type products on store shelves that are far past the 'use by' date and (of course) don't buy them if that's the case. I only use Nolo Bait once every 3 or 4 or even 5 years because once you establish the disease on your property, it continues killing for some time. That's one of the most useful aspects of it....since grasshoppers will cannibalize other grasshoppers, the disease will spread from infected dying/dead ones to the ones that eat them. Jo3ponies, There are several grasshopper control products that use the Nosema locustae as their active ingredient, including Nolo Bait, Grasshopper Attack and Semaspore. I've linked one below so you can see what it looks like. You may find it in nurseries or farm supply stores in your area or, depending on where you live, you may have to order it online and have it shipped to you. I've used it for about 15 years, but as explained above, you don't have to use it every year. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: Semaspore at Planet Natural...See MoreHow do you get rid of polyurethane smell?
Comments (53)I'm sorry, I have not had a chance to get any charcoal. The smell is still there. Not as strong as it was a few weeks ago and after a month it is tolerable, but everyone who comes into my new room asks "what is that smell?" This is INSANE how much worse the smell is after this supposed VOC compliant crap. There is no way in hell this is better for you. for the first 3 weeks I could not even stand being in the room as I would get a headache after breathing this in for 20 minutes. I loved the old smell of the old stuff and it would be gone within a week. This smell is going on over a month and It is still lingering. I think we need to find another brand or get everyone to complain to these varnish companies to bring back the old formulas. Why did they even change it? How in the heck did they ever test this and Say "Yeah this is better!! You would have to have absolutely no sense of smell to think this stuff is good for anyone to breath or use. Do they really think by changing the smell or recipe of varnish we are saving the planet? It is ridiculous!! I'm so sorry I wish I had the answer for you. I just left my windows open a crack for days until it was tolerable. Also you could use a damp rid bag and hope that will absorb some of the smell. It is strong at first but I know at least these hanging bags smell better than the varnish!! You can get these at Lowes or HomeDepot in the cleaning isle....See MoreSide note to getting rid of bermuda-How do you get rid of Oxalis?
Comments (9)The common yellow oxalis we have here has tiny "bulbules" (sp?), which lurk 12 -18 inches under the ground. You can easily pull up the plants, of course, but those tiny bulb things stay under the soil, and up it comes again. I once had a gardener who decided to eradicate it from a flower bed which is about 12 feet long and 6 feet wide. He actually dug up the top 2 feet of soil, and sifted it by hand to get all of the tiny bulbs out. That worked for the first year, but by 2-3 years after he did that, back the oxalis came. So, being lazy, what I do is just admire it in the Spring, except where it is trying to smother other plants. Then just pull it out around those plants. By late Spring here it has died down, and I pretend it is gone. Of course, it comes up again the next Spring. It is one of our first blooming plants to bloom (starts Jan/Feb), so I just regard it as such and let it be mostly. One of my cats likes to eat it (we used to eat it as children - we called it "sour grass"). Jackie...See More- 20 years ago
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