Lets hope for a rainy spring! If it rains at the right time the moisture will kill off most of the incubating grasshoppers! Something to do with rotting fungus and stuff. bsk@brightok.net zone 7a aka " Ranchmama " *********************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allen and Judy Merten" <jbmerten@swbell.net> > Same here with the grasshoppers. We have had the 3rd mild winter > in a row. Last summer the grasshoppers were a plague. They would get > on the birdfeeders and eat the sunflower seeds that I put out for the > birds. I kept hoping for a flock of seagulls. > Allen > Bastrop Co., SE Central Tx. > Zone 8, where we have been setting record highs all month - 88* > tops so far