Building and Installing Nolo Bait Stations for Eastern Lubber Grasshoppers
This is one color variety of a young Eastern Lubber Grasshopper.
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And here we have another color variety of the Eastern Lubber Grasshopper.
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Both color variations appear in my yard. And each turns into a large grasshopper that can only generally be killed by crushing their bodies.No animal or creature that I know of will eat them and they are to large for fish bait.
There were many comments about bait stations, but no pictures or drawings so these are my idea.
I used 1 1/2 inch PVC pipe cut to about 8 inches using alternating 45 degree cuts to provide each end with an overhang hopefully to help keep out water which causes the NOLO Bait to become inert.
I used a half round rasp to smooth the burring present from cutting the PVC, inside and outside.
Once they were shaped I drilled a hole from center top down through both sides of the pipe in which I installed a large 6 inch galvanized nail.
A closeup showing the overhang to help keep water out of the bait station.
Another view, different angle, inside you can see the galvanized nail.
And a third view, different angle.
Since I eyeballed them, they are slightly different in length.
A closeup of the top before caulking.
Caulking material.
I put a glob around each upper part of the nail and over the nail head and left them hanging in the sun for a couple days for the caulking to stabilize. I did not want water running down the nail into the NOLO Bait.
The nail will keep the pipe from being blown away on a windy day. The flag is to alert the yard guy so he will noy destroy the trap with his weedwacker.
I put out six in various locations around the yard. I made a hole in the ground with a screwdriver before inserting the nail, so the nail would not rip the caulking loose.
Now, my spouse wants a bait trap in every location she has ever seen a Lubber.
