NOLO Bait Stations for Eastern Lubber Grasshoppers

 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.

Construction of my NOLO Bait station.

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.