Would one of those garden nets over the berries work, along with relocating them when the opportunity occurs?

I kill them and leave them for the birds or ants.

Grasshoppers have been known to eat through garden nets to reach the plants. In my garden, if there are just a few and they aren't taking too much foliage of important plants, I may just try to shoo them away. If something gets too popular with them, I cut their numbers--literally. But for the most part, they are just a part of my garden's nature department, and we share the plants.

The echium was a Tower of Jewels, not Pride of Madera. I have never seen a snail or slug anywhere in our gardens so I'm pretty sure it was the grasshoppers, which I found frequently on the tower of jewels. I also found them in a Cleveland Sage but the sage never showed signs of being eaten.

Oh, and I was mistaken. I was just looking at a ruler. These beasts are closer to 3" long. I trap them in a plastic cup and relocate them and one was freaking me out how hard it was hitting the cup trying to get out.

I've seen one lizard in out yard but for a short time (there are three cats that regularly roam out yard including our own).

My wife leaves food out in the street for crows. Maybe I can convince to kill the hoppers if she thinks it's for the crows.

the crows should love them.

I put garden gloves on and give them a good pinch. The little ones aren't bad, but the bigger ones are disgustingly crunchy.

Don't feel bad about killing grasshoppers. If your dog has fleas, do you relocate them? You can kill them without adversely affecting the environment if you squish or cut them and leaves them to be eaten by something else. They are hard to catch, but if you sneak up on them from behind you can get them with your pruners. They also don't like getting wet, so if one flies out from your garden when you are watering, follow it with the hose and wet it repeatedly until it has slowed down enough for you to approach it and squish it.

lol @ If your dog has fleas, do you relocate them? I mentally pictured taking the dog out to the wilderness area and telling him to shake really, really hard until the fleas were airborne! :)

I've been noticing a lot of grasshoppers lately around here as well. Two years ago we planted a lot of fruit trees (stone fruit) and that's when they began to appear.

I really love grasshoppers, but unfortunately they chomp down all the leaves on my poor little fruit trees!

In our yard, I don't think they do much harm aside from cosmetic damage to the leaves of some plants. They seem to really love chewing on michelia leaves. It's the earwigs that actually eat into rose petals and other flowers that I am more po'd about. But I do get rid of them on sight. You get rid of some and there will always be more lurking somewhere else.

This has given me an idea...no grasshopper problems here...this is the land of snails and slugs and I also feed my crows every day and I'll be they would like the snails and slugs...tomorrow a.m. for breakie.....we'll see.