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Mormon crickets are voracious eaters and have sharp, powerful mandibles for chewing many kinds of plants. Their mandibles can easily chew into fruit. Feeding damage increases as the nymphs mature. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\n\nMormon crickets will strip trees of foliage and feed on the directly on the fruit. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The common name is derived from this pest\u2019s\ndestruction of the crops of Mormon settlers in the mid-1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is native throughout western North America\nin sagebrush areas, rangelands, and grasslands, and is subject to population\noutbreaks that cause result in serious agricultural losses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence for the same is given below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mormon\ncrickets populations continue to rise<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

February 19, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPARKS\n\u2013 Rural Nevada\u2019s arid landscape is covered in snow but it won\u2019t be long before\nbugs start hatching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Nevada Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with USDA\u2019s Plant Protection and Quarantine program, is conducting a series of public meetings on proposed Mormon cricket and grasshopper population management this week. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMormon\ncricket and grasshopper populations have been on the rise for the last couple\nof years,\u201d Jeff Knight, state entomologist for the NDA, said. \u201cSignificant\nnumbers were found north of Reno in the Red Rock area, south of Winnemucca,\nnear Paradise Valley and in and around Austin last year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Spraying insecticide is\nnot an option’: Swarms of Mormon crickets invade Oregon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By ERIC MORTENSON, Capital Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday,\nJune 23rd 2017<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SALEM, Ore. (AP) \u2014 An infestation of\nvoracious Mormon crickets in the Arlington area of north-central Oregon has\nresidents scrambling to protect farm fields and home gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ione resident Alison Ogden said people in\nArlington have spent thousands of dollars battling the bugs on their own over\nthe past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Some people don’t have air conditioning\nand can’t even open their windows for fear the bugs will enter homes,” she\nsaid in an email to the Capital Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ogden said she and her husband, Jarrod, farm\na few miles east of town, and anxiously check the crickets’ presence every day.\nShe said the pests could do significant\ndamage to their crops<\/strong>. “And because we have millions of leaf cutter\nbees working in the alfalfa seed fields, spraying insecticide is not an\noption,” she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insecticides have proven to be ineffective\nagainst the Mormon crickets. Physical barriers and ditches have been erected to\nprevent bands from entering the orchards. But this happens to be a tedious\nwork. So what can be used efficiently to keep the Mormon crickets away from\nyour plants?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C Tech Corporation<\/a><\/strong> offers a range of low toxic\nand low hazard insect aversive repellent, which can be successfully used to\nkeep pesky creatures at bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Termirepel™ <\/a><\/strong>can be easily described as insect\naversive repellent, used also against all types of insects and which works on\nthe mechanism of repellency. It means that it does not kill the target insects\nbut only repel them, thus balancing the ecology and helping in maintaining the\ngoal of sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This product can be easily\nused against a number of insects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The product available\nin the form of masterbatch can be incorporated into the\nbase polymer of applications like the wire and cables, pipes, agricultural films,\nand mulches, irrigation pipes etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lacquer can be applied\nas a topical application on the fence, wooden objects, furniture, ceilings,\nframes, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Termirepel<\/strong>TM<\/strong><\/sup><\/a>\u00a0liquid concentrate can be diluted in paints in a pre-determined ratio can be applied on walls and many other end applications to keep the Mormon crickets away from homes, buildings and other public places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Termirepel<\/strong>TM<\/strong><\/sup> insect repellent spray<\/g><\/strong><\/a> can<\/g> be sprayed on infested and susceptible areas areas<\/g> to keep them away from the application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Termirepel™<\/strong><\/a> is\nthermally stable and does not degrade on exposure to heat and sunlight. It does\nnot kill or harm the insect but repels them. It does not volatilize and does\nnot degrade the soil. It is RoHS, RoHS2, ISO, EU BPR, REACH, APVMA, NEA\ncompliant and FIFRA exempted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact us at  technical.marketing@ctechcorporation.com<\/a> to\nkeep the pests away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mormon crickets are voracious eaters and have sharp, powerful mandibles for chewing many kinds of plants. Their mandibles can easily chew into fruit. Feeding damage increases as the nymphs mature. Mormon crickets will strip trees of foliage and feed on the directly on the fruit. The common name is derived from this pest\u2019s destruction of … Continue reading Mormon crickets, crop-destroying insects<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.termirepel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}