Lubbers are toxic. I've only read about shrikes being able to ingest them.

According to University of Florida,

"Baits containing insecticide are often used to control grasshoppers; lubbers are attracted to bran bait containing corn oil and insecticide. Bait application will be the most effective in areas that lack competitive vegetation, as lubbers will be less likely to eat bait if there’s attractive vegetation in the area."

Maybe you can use pieces of the lubbers' favorite target out of your garden (like aloe leaves) in place of bran.

Good suggestion! Here is what they look like now:





Beautiful, but destructive. I have gotten rid of most of them, but a few of these guys are hanging around. Now I have a battle with snails.

Y'all seem to have a bunch of bad critters in FL.

Yep, the critters love it here for the same reason the rest of us do, Ken. Warm weather all year 'round.

Not sure why, but I never see lubbers in my garden.

Ken, some of my Facebook friends call Florida "the Australia of the United States".

Elaine, I never see them either, but my friend less than a quarter mile away has a gazillion. She also has WAY less spiky and mean plants than I do....she has lots of plumbago, plumeria, various herbaceous perennials, lilies, etc. I have mostly cactus, bromeliads, succulents....but I'm worried about the butterfly garden coming under seige. It's RIGHT by the salt water so maybe that will save me.

I think the salt will keep them at bay. What's crazy is, my garden is probably 65% bromeliads and cacti, and that doesn't see, to deter them :p

I hadn't had a problem with them before, but have them now at the house I moved into. I think it's just luck of the draw

Hello - I know this post thread is 6 years old, but hopefully, somebody gets this. I'm having a lubber issue as well. They actually like my green onions (which I've been told by many is unusual.) I tried cayenne/garlic spray, which didn't seem to work at first - but I actually haven't seen them on my plants in a week or so, so FINGERS CROSSED it's working. Just wanted to share that. But also, I read that planting marigolds near your garden helps to deter them. Anybody tried that with success? Or with any other plant to deter them? I'm not going to try to cut them in half - it bothers me just thinking about killing them, the crunching noise is unbearable. I just want to "deter" them from my garden. Thoughts? Thanks in advance.
-Meg

Sorry, Meg, but I crush them underfoot when I find them. If they are still very small, finding them in clusters on certain plants, I kill them with an insecticidal spray. I don't know why, but for some reason, I've found very few this spring.

It's surprising that the numbers of babies out here don't survive to adulthood, at least not on my place. So come September the grown up are fewer. I cut them in half, but it's handy to have a pal get in it's eye line and I come in from behind.