I squish them. As adults I usually have to use the large shovel and behead them. And they'll still move. And I freak a little.

Still having only young ones here thankfully. I can use a hand shovel and squish them easily. Killed one on my neighbors house tonight. Sure seems like an above average number for me this year.

Death to all lubbers!

Squish them, that's the only way I know how. Though I've read that something called Cygon can be used on nymphs, but not adults.

Squish them, that's the only way I know how. Though I've read that something called Cygon can be used on nymphs, but not adults.

Don't get me started on lubbers again. lol I've killed hundreds again this year. Squish them, stomp on them, any way you can, but get them DEAD!!!

Another vote for squishing here - those guys are like little invading robots. Best time of day is early morning or dusk, when they're moving more slowly.

Gloves & garden clogs are best, but I'll do it barehanded too = P

Something you might try is neem oil. Spraying the immature black lubbers with neem oil on a regular basis prevents them from molting and eventually they die. The neem oil on the plants is distasteful to them and the oil is not toxic.

I used to take walks in the Loxahatchee Wildlife Preserve in Boyton Beach during lubber season. Apparently the adults taste so nasty that when I threw them in the water for the baby gators, after 1 bite they would spit them out.

Where can you get neem oil?

Is this a joke you're playing on the newbies? You know kind of like a snipe hunt? Well I know nothing of which I
speak, however a neighbor of my parents could and did plant anything. He told me that if a "wormy thing" got on your plants you should squish it on a leaf and rub the "gooey stuff" all over the plant. I myself don't feel
like doing that, but I can tell you he never had bugs in his garden wonderland.

Phyllie

Neem oil can be found at Lowes or Home Depot. It's manufactured by a few different companies but it's not uncommon, so you should be able to find it. It's important to spray them regularly during the season and if you do you should see a decline in numbers over time. By late summer there should be relatively few lubbers, if any.

When I walk around my yard, I carry a pair of scissors. Lubbers are surprisingly slow. I merely cut them in half, cut their head off. I don't want to spray anything that might effect the butterflies.
theo

I have bricks in several areas of the yard so I'm never far from one when I see a lubber.

What the heck are these brown grasshoppers I'm seeing? Never had them before?

Julie

This year is my first garden, and I'm considering it my "experimental garden". I had several large nests of lubbers hatch-- got pics of all of the babies. Dozens and dozens of them. Going the natural and organic route. Trying to attract beneficial insects and seeing what damage the lubbers do, so that I know how to handle them next year. So far, I've had them around for a couple of months, and the worst damage has been to my shefflera (which I want to get rid of anyway). Something has chomped on my cucumber a bit, but the damage to the stalk and the droppings I saw the other day actually leads me to believe that it was a mouse rather than the lubbers. The population has really dropped off over the last couple of weeks. So far, so good. We are living together, and they are behaving themselves. We'll see whether that changes, and I decide that next year I need to be more proactive with them.