locust/Hoppers

[poison]

I believe they are illegal.

[Mentat]

I believe they are illegal.

Yes they are! Locusts can become a plague and cause great damage to our agriculture.

Hi Kevin! If interested in something different; why don't you catch some of these and raise them: American grasshopper - Schistocerca americana (Drury) ? To catch will need a net (bug, pond, etc.) and a grass field were grasshoppers live. Just walk around and throw net where they land after a jump! Then carefully transfer to critter keeper and get some more (males are smaller and skinnier than females). Bonus is... you will do a good workout and get funny remarks from anyone around you ! As long as you do not take or send them across State lines it's legal to collect bugs.

Get set-up to high 80's to 90s F; feed wheat grass, greens and other grasses, and use sandy soil substrate for them to lay eggs. If you want can add some potted grasses to set-up too! Your thoughts to wait for babies (F1) and get rid of adults will work OK to prevent pesticides reaching your frogs. After first babies are out you could get rid of substrate and clean set-up to remove any trace of pesticides from it; then maybe start feeding the F2 generation that will probably have no chemical exposure. Wild one maybe exposed and F1 could be through contact with substrate that had Wild generation droppings.

Well, let us know if you try and what your results where; good luck !