Don't need a drawing for this one and it won't require composting earthworms but might just help lessen yard mowing chores!
Make an open bottomed screen enclosure or purchase one of those screen yard tents and make a sturdy frame base for attaching the bottom edges to and also allow it to be anchored in case of high wind...
Put hoppers in. As they eat that spot bare, move the enclosure by sliding it along the ground so to keep the hoppers inside.
That's all I have to say about that. :)
Edit...Now that I think about it, I do have some more to say about it haha! This is probably a good idea but it has drawbacks.
If one knows for sure what type of grass(es) they will be ranging the hoppers on, ok. There might be undesirable, bad tasting or worse plants the hoppers might eat and they say insects will taste like or otherwise, they are what they eat.
They will mate and lay eggs on the earth in any given spot so one might then be contributing to pest hoppers on the loose. Your neighbor might not be too happy if they ravage his garden! Perhaps this idea is not so good. Oh well. Win some, lose some. I'll leave it up and think about it some more. It might spark further, more constructive ideas in someone else. :)
This might actually work better with katydids than with grasshoppers. The idea of "ranching' k-dids has occurred to me over the years. Consider that.
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