5 best way to prevent Locusts and grasshoppers in your garden

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Row Covers and Nets

These barriers create a physical obstacle that prevents the pests from accessing your plants, while still allowing for the necessary airflow and sunlight.

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locusts

Creating barriers can prevent the migration of locusts and grasshoppers into fields.

Fencing and Trenches

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Healthy Soil Maintenance

Ensuring soil health through proper fertilization and organic matter addition helps plants resist pest damage.

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chemical

Use foliar insecticidal sprays to control grasshoppers in fields that show >10% damage.  Insecticides that can be sprayed against the pest include chlorpyriphos, buprofezin or etofenprox.

Chemical Control

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biologic

Biological control agents that occur naturally such as wasps, parasitic flies and worms, ants, birds, frogs, and web-spinning spiders should be promoted.

Biological Control

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Aphid Damage Symptoms