Grasshoppers

DXP55

DXP55

DXP55

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Has anyone else got a plague of these - haven't seen one for years. - Even Ronnie (cat) is grabbing them in flight and eating them. :)
 
I have noticed more this year, which is just as well as they may be one of our main sources of protein in a few years
 
I thank god we don't get those ******* Cicadas around here, not up north anyway. Whenever I watch a video on youtube of someone on holiday in Europe, all you can here is the god awful racket they make. I'm hoping the climate change that's going on doesn't mean the little sods start to colonise the UK. Grasshoppers on the other hand, I think they are cool little things, as long as they stay grasshopper sized like. I had loads of them jumping for their lives as I cut the grass last night, plus one solitary juvenile toad which was impressed about having to hop out of the way.
 
We seem to have loads but we always tend to have quite a lot in our garden but it does seem more than normal, they must have liked the weather we've had i guess.
 
Having just moved out of London I've encountered probably 5 grasshoppers in my life. But today my colleague heard one in our first floor office!

We caught it with a pint glass and dropped it out of the window... It climbed back in. I decided to let it stay.
 
When I was a kid the front garden of our house was a big grass bank down to the road and there used to be 100s of them - I've never seen them in those kind of numbers since. Strangely they rarely if ever came into the house - stayed to themselves on the bank.
 
Our garden usually has loads in and we hear them chirping in the evenings. But this year there is noticeably fewer. No idea why. There's loads of black birds and thrushes so they are eating them?
 
We've got tonnes of them in our garden and occasionally in the house when the cat decides to hunt/herd them into the living room.
 
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