To distract grasshoppers from the yummy plants and flowers in your garden, try keeping one area of your landscape unmowed and weedy. The grasshoppers will pack in like sardines in that grassy patch. We're probably stuck with grasshoppers and their damage through August, Woodson says. The natural biological balance gets out of control when the grasshoppers invade, and for a while there aren't enough of the natural predators and parasites that keep grasshoppers in check. But those predators and diseases will build up eventually, and then the grasshoppers will go away . . . for now.
Grasshoppers are chewing insects, so they have very large mandibles, or jaws.
If you stand still long enough, you can see the grasshopper chomping on the leaf. The Audubon Institute's Edible Insect Site.