Grasshoppers gobble crops, farm profits

UCCE advisors share control, abatement strategies across Northern California
That buzzing noise in Northern California is the sound of grasshoppers chewing a path of destruction through crops and pollinator-friendly plants as they hop across an expanding area.
This is the fifth year in a row that massive numbers of grasshoppers have overrun Modoc County and “probably the worst I’ve seen yet,” said Laura Snell, a University of California Cooperative Extension livestock and…