Moonhowl, I was just reading your info about the Lubber grasshopper. I'm not sure if these are lubbers but they are everywhere in the blackberry briars. They have now taken over my butterfly bush! I'm really getting tired of going over there to look for some pretty butterflies and it's just a big lubber orgy!!! Guess I'll get my soap spray out there. (Don't have Dr. Bronners but do have Meyers brand that is all natural)
On the site you posted, it shows several parasitic flies that can do a pretty good job of getting the numbers down! Hope some Tachinid flies show up to parasitize them!
Do these look like lubbers? Both the chickens and the dogs will chase them down and eat them! Maybe that's why the dogs are eating grass and throwing up?
Sometimes I catch them and feed them to the chickens. Maybe I shouldn't. Ho-hum!
