Are grasshoppers beneficial...if not he's gonna have to move on

Just curious if they are beneficial and eat bad bugs...He has been on my plant in the same plcae for 2 days...yesterday I did some foliar feeding before flowering gets real intense and it was the 1st time he/she moved to under a leaf for some cover. My plants have no damage at all but just wondring if it's laying eggs or lookjing for a mate or food???

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Grasshoppers
Generally harmless to cannabis unless they are found in large numbers, grasshoppers are insects from the Acrididae family with legs designed for jumping long distances. The males make a high pitch clicking sound.

There is a particular species of grasshoppers often called Mocusts'that form in large migratory swarms and are highly destructive to nearly every kind of vegetation. Locust attacks are so severe that they can strip a plant down to its stem and branches within a few hours. During a locust attack the grower can only take cuttings from his or her plant and continue the strain elsewhere. Locusts will even eat pesticide-laden plants when traveling in large numbers so pesticides are rarely effective against these types of attacks.

Grasshoppers are treated as tourists in small numbers.They stay around only for a short period of time and move on. Grasshoppers are best hand picked from your plants if you wish to control them. Birds also eat grasshoppers.[/FONT]

Grasshoppers will decapitate small Babies. Fish like them with a hook in their ass. Like Otis said, just move them elsewhere.

my back yard is full of them, I keep my plant back their, their is only one leaf that has been chewed on, I dont know that it was a grasshoppers or something else.

If I'm not planning to use them for bait, I like to hand pick them and squish their fucking heads.

Im wierd man, I really hate killing insects...Anything thats in the house I usually kill unless moth or some harmless bug that does not spread diesease. Outside I let them be...KARMA!

giant green grasshoppers eat the tops of my buds...i hand pick and squash 'em in the early evening....one grasshopper can do a good bit of damage in less than an hour...would love to find something that eats them...praying mantis maybe??

txhomegrown said:

If I'm not planning to use them for bait, I like to hand pick them and squish their fucking heads.

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lol. I found one last night on my plant, and flicked him as hard as I could right in the head...DEAD

srv3278 said:

giant green grasshoppers eat the tops of my buds...i hand pick and squash 'em in the early evening....one grasshopper can do a good bit of damage in less than an hour...would love to find something that eats them...praying mantis maybe??

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Hell you can't blame the poor thing. It's just trying to get a little high