Controlling Grasshoppers by Stephanie Suesan Smith, Ph.D. Grasshoppers are once again so prevalent this year that they seem to be taking over the landscape.  They are more prevalent in dry years because in wet years spring rains drown eggs and nymphs (baby grasshoppers).  Since we have had very little rain, however, most of the grasshoppers have survived to cause us problems. The best product to kill grasshoppers on a long term basis is NOLO bait.  It contains a protozoan (Nosema locustae) that infests the grasshoppers.  It kills the… Read More →