I've been lucky here on the north end of Denver, I've only seen a couple of them all summer. But I remember one summer many years ago when I lived near Parker and they were so bad I didn't even want to go out of the house. It was gross!

If your neighbors try to get you certified, call me and I'll come testify that you really are quite sane!

Good luck in your ongoing battle,
Skybird

Its funny, here I've had the normal amount, but in the valley to the east its now two years in a row that they have been swamped by the fellas. I visited a month ago, and was impressed, there were a dozen landing on me at any given time.

i just moved to pueblo from new orleans (katrina). i keep gettingthose things in my house and they keep us up all night. i wasn't sure if they were considered beneficial or not, so i've been catching them and letting them go outside.
do they do any damage to the gardens, or are they just a pest?

annie

I don't know what kind of damage they might do. They eat plant material, don't they? Up here in the northwest 'burbs, I've only seen one or two this year, so no worries here at least.

Oh yeah, they eat plant material all right, and I've never heard of any beneficial aspect to them. Maybe food for the garden snakes?

But on the other hand, I'm not aware of any good control for them at this time of year, either. In spring you can put out the "Nolo", a kind of biological control that's effective when they're still very small. But for now, we're pretty much stuck with 'em until a good hard frost, and even then some of them will hide in warm spots and come back out when it's warmer...

Four years ago (my first year with my own garden), I didn't notice grasshoppers at all. I think it was last year that I saw a few around. This year there are even more.

It startles me when I go out to dump stuff in the compost pile and the grasshoppers go crazy in the corn, I keep thinking there's some sort of animal in there...

I'm seeing all kinds of them now when I clean up the leaves. I didn't notice them as much over the summer, but now, they're everywhere in the grass. Hope that isn't signs of things to come next summer.