These barriers create a physical obstacle that prevents the pests from accessing your plants, while still allowing for the necessary airflow and sunlight.
Creating barriers can prevent the migration of locusts and grasshoppers into fields.
Ensuring soil health through proper fertilization and organic matter addition helps plants resist pest damage.
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.
Biological control agents that occur naturally such as wasps, parasitic flies and worms, ants, birds, frogs, and web-spinning spiders should be promoted.