Now's a great time for Nolo Bait not only because of its effectiveness on nymphs, but because spring is usually so darned dry. Put the Nolo Bait inside, and it's somewhat protected from dew. You can also order online at Since it gets ruined when it gets wet, Shell's suggests making little bait stations out of small pipe sections or toilet paper rolls. (Call ahead before you make a trip they've been selling out regularly. But I've already spotted a few clusters of nymphs, so earlier this week, I picked up another $21, 1-pound bag of the stuff at Shell's Feed Store, 9513 N Nebraska Ave., Tampa - the only place I know of locally that sells it. I started using Nolo Bait late last April, and I'm sure I saw significantly fewer adults over the summer than I had the previous couple years. When adults eat it, some may die but most are rendered impotent, so they can't lay eggs for the Class of 2013. Sprinkle it around your garden, or wherever you've seen lubbers, and when the nymphs eat it, they die. Nolo Bait is an organic biological insecticide camouflaged in yummy wheat bran. Last year and this, I'm using a fairly new product I've heard people rave about. You can also use your hand to sweep the whole cluster into a bucket of soapy water or do the smash-and-stomp - both of which are very "green" pesticides, I might add. Whiskey & Brandy Still with Worm & Thumper, 1/2 OD Tubing between Still & Thumper, 3/8 OD Tubing between Thumper & Worm by North Georgia Still Company. The University of Florida suggests looking for products with one of these ingredients: carbaryl, bifenthrin, cyhalothrin, permethrin or esfenvalerate. Some insecticides will kill young lubbers if you hit them directly they're not very effective on adults, though. Lacking a nest of shrikes, the best way to beat the lubbers is to get them now, while they're babies. The lubber's only natural predator is the loggerhead shrike, a cool little bird that decapitates them and then impales their carcasses on thorns or barbed-wire fences so the sun can bake out the toxins before mealtime.
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GEORGIA THUMPER LICENSE
They think their toxic-warning colors and non-biodegradable exoskeleton are a license to trespass, and they're annoyingly smug about it.īecause, for the most part, they're right. Expert news, reviews and videos of the latest digital cameras, lenses, accessories, and phones. We have ants that bite, massive roaches that fly, and grasshoppers that scare. Its something I have had to get used to living in the south. A am deathly afraid of bugs, and usually run screaming if one comes near me. Hes pretty small compared to some of the other ones ive seen. As hulking 3-inch adults, they're contemptuous and condescending they look me in the eye and dare me to try to stop them making a meal of my entire garden -and they love every plant I grow, including weeds. Its a rather large grasshopper, also known as a Georgia thumper. In fact, I feel a little sorry for the slugs and hornworms it's hard to work up similar emotion for pests that I can't see without my glasses. I do dispatch the slugs and aphids, scale and tomato hornworms, but I bear them no ill will. Normally, I'm a live-and-let-live kind of gardener.
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