Grasshopper

Big Grasshopper

We found a huge grasshopper in the back yard the other day, just a few feet from the new raised bed where the tomatoes had just been planted.

The grasshopper was so well camouflaged that I almost stepped on it before I saw it.  Once I did see it, we had to figure out what to do about it.  We have a hard time killing any creature except mosquitoes and poisonous spiders, but when it comes to insects that eat plants at the rate grasshoppers eat tomatoes, we have to do something about it.

So we trapped the critter and carted it off to an undisclosed location and let it go.

We're probably the only people who practice "catch and release" with grasshoppers.