Where have all the grasshoppers gone?

[SarzWix]

I've had a massive colony of them on the allotment this year, and kept a big section of the path between my 2 plots unstrimmed for them, much to the annoyance of the allotment committee I did invite a couple of them in to see and hear them though, just so they knew why I was doing it.
What do they do in winter? Do they die off? Could really do with chopping the grass down now, and I haven't heard them at all since the weather turned wet a few weeks ago. I don't want to go and kill them all though if they're just hiding from the rain!

[weekendwellies]

Apparently adult grasshoppers die when freezing temperatures arrive and the female eggs lay dormant in the soil until the following summer.

[SarzWix]

Oh, that's alright, I can cut back in a couple of weeks then Thanks WW

[jacob marley]

I have few on my plots i find them fascinating..jacob

[womble]

This thread made me wonder what use grasshoppers are to the gardener, so I googled it. Apparently they prefer to eat grasses, leaves and cereal crops so, although the sound of grasshoppers chirruping away is lovely and makes me reminisce, unless you have enough space to leave as a wild area then do they really have a place in the crop-growing or flower garden?

I'm not sure it matters if they have a place in a crop growing garden or not. Surely it's just about a diversity of nature. As most of us are organic type growers, we want to support as big-a garden ecosystem as we can.

Plus the fact, that on warm summer evenings, one of the greatest pleasures must be to look round your plot with a glass of your pleasure, listening to the crickets.

If they ever get to locust plague conditions, I reserve the right to change my mind.