Beginner Gardening: Grasshopper ruining my tomatoes!!!, 1 by TXBBQ

TXBBQ wrote:
I have a grasshopper in my garden that - according to the TAMU website - is identified as a "differential grasshopper" . Whatever it is, it is taking over my garden as it's own and DECIMATING my tomatoes, having eaten through half a dozen already (see pic).

What can I do to kill it? I saw it one day and sprayed it with insecticidal soap, but it laughed at me. I knocked it off with a stick and thought that was it, but obviously not. Now, I inspect morning, noon and evening but can't find it anywhere. Evidently it is coming out at night, as each morning I find another half-eaten tomato. I have GOT to find and kill this sucker before we have NO tomatoes anymore. I have an organic Square Foot Garden and have been trying to keep away from chemicals. Apparently, I don't have much choice if I want to continue eating tomatoes.

Somebody PLEASE help me. I live in (the inferno) of North Texas....triple digit temps every day for the last week.