Drought conditions offer luxury accommodations for grasshoppers.
Homeowners around the state haven't escaped these destructive pests either. Countless home gardens and landscapes have been destroyed or heavily damaged. This figure represents the cost of replacing forage eaten by grasshoppers plus insecticide control costs. Dr. Allen Knutson, Extension entomologist in Dallas. In this same area of Texas, farmers have treated 85,000 acres of corn, cotton, sorghum and soybeans.