When it comes to agricultural pests, I believe most people first think of grasshopper. Grasshopper is an old agricultural pest and widely distributed. It can be found in tropical and temperate grasslands, deserts and forests. After dealing with grasshopper for so many years, do we know grasshopper?

Grasshopper, commonly known as grasshopper, is a kind of insect. It has chewing mouthparts and powerful hind legs. It basically moves jump by jump. It also relies on jump to avoid the attack of natural enemies! Why are grasshoppers pests? Because grasshopper takes plant leaves as food and always eats people’s crops and vegetables in the garden, farmers hate it! And there are many kinds of grasshoppers. There are more than 12000 kinds all over the world!

So what do grasshoppers like best? Xiaobian will show you today!

Grasshoppers are not picky eaters. They can be said to be good children. As long as they are plant leaves, they can’t escape the grasshopper’s mouth. They like sweet potatoes, water spinach, cabbage and other vegetables. They also like to eat wheat, sorghum, millet, rice, sorghum and other crops, as well as Artemisia plants such as reed, barnyardgrass, white grass, vetiver grass and seaweed. Moreover, they have strong reproductive ability, so they give us a grasshopper disaster from time to time, Once there is a locust disaster, it is basically thousands of miles away from the red earth, because the leaves of basic plants can be eaten by grasshoppers, so now our scientists pay close attention to the control of grasshoppers in agriculture, and now remarkable achievements have been made!

Moreover, grasshoppers like to eat what kind of tender plant stems and leaves. Therefore, once there is a locust disaster, the loss of farmers is immeasurable. Therefore, we must do a good job in the prevention and control of grasshoppers. I believe that most farmers know more than I do!

But in fact, the best prevention and control is biological prevention and control. The biggest natural enemy of grasshoppers is frogs. As long as you keep some frogs in the field, basically, grasshoppers are difficult to cause trouble in your field. Of course, artificial prevention and control is also essential!

I believe everyone doesn’t like grasshoppers, and neither do I! However, controlling grasshoppers is still a heavy task with a long way to go!