Gardening: grasshoppers in the yard
Self-tutoring about gardening: the tutor explores the relationship with grasshoppers.
It’s been a very active year for crickets (I hear them booming right now) and grasshoppers. This post, I am concentrating on grasshoppers. Noticing so many this year, I’ve been wondering what they eat.
I read that grasshoppers eat plants. However, looking around in the garden, I found the pumpkin and sunflower leaves untouched, and wondered why.
Apparently, grasshoppers don’t like squash plants. The garden I planted this year includes pumpkin, which perhaps is close enough to deter them. In the middle of the garden are tall sunflowers, but they are surrounded by the pumpkin plants.
It seems, therefore, that the grasshoppers I encounter are likely eating grass. Well, that’s fine with me. Any grass they eat they will return to the soil even richer, if they’re like other plant-eaters I know of.
Source:
Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.