The grasshoppers are back

Not that they ever really go away entirely, but they tend to swarm in the heat and drought. And we’re going through a triple-digit warm spell that could last a while and, of course, we’re still pretty dry.

Haven’t seen more than a piddling few hoppers here at the rancho, but a fellow I know out in Red Rock, southeast of Austin down around Cedar Creek, who grows organic veggies for market, says they are “grazing on everything like a herd of a thousand cattle.” They have been even worse.