Grasshoppers are provided with plastic cups containing commercially available 'play' (sandbox) sand in which to lay eggs (Fig. 3). The cups are placed with the adult grasshoppers beginning about ...

Grasshoppers lay their eggs in the ground in the late summer or early fall and die when the colder weather sets in. Their eggs will last through the winter and hatch in the spring or summer.

But after the pests caught him off guard last year, he's trying to get ready by spraying his dryland fields in the hopes that would help reduce the number of grasshoppers laying eggs there.

Grasshoppers lay their eggs in fall in the soil where the eggs will overwinter until spring. Grasshoppers look for sun-exposed, dry, compacted and undisturbed ground for laying their eggs.