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Is this a grasshopper or cricket that's decimating my lawn & is there anything I can do about them?

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    They've moved here @Lyn or, at least, their rellies are thriving. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Maybe they're eating whatever is eating your grass.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    In  my old garden during summer they were a background sound, it felt more like being in the continent. 
    In this garden it has taken eight years to see one, and that was yesterday!

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I have a few but nothing like they used to be.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    purplerallim said:
     it felt more like being in the continent.
    A very important 'the' there. :# 
    I was down on the Gwent Levels today and the grasshopper chorus was very loud.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Nothing worse than an incontinent grasshopper. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I just posted the other day,it's a cricket,it didn't do any jumping, just walked fast, never seen one before.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    @Nanny Beach when my friend's daughter was small her vocabulary was limited so she made up her own nouns. Insects of any sort will forever be known as 'fast walkers'.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    I like that plant pauper. I tell my hubby I reckon he's a centipede, because he's always got so many pairs of shoes lying around,(drives me nuts) but on reflection maybe a cricket. He's not massively tall or long legged, but at 65 and 5.7ins,7 years younger and 7 inches taller than me,and he does walk really fast,I often jog to keep up. Have threatened to take one of the grandkids scooters out on the dog walk!
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