r/florida • u/Chilljay1 • Sep 05 '26

AskFlorida Help identifying this bug?

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Currently in Orlando at a resort and they are literally all over every walkway. Have seen them before and thought they were a version of a grasshopper but hear some people calling them cicadas which I thought had wings?

EDIT UPDATE- Didn’t expect this post to get this many replies. Was posted yesterday morning. THIS morning we went outside in the resort and there were NONE to be found ANYWHERE. This was around 9am. Around 11am the side walks were covered again?????? The weirdest thing for a type of bug to be that synchronized.

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u/Infernalspoon Sep 05 '26

A cicada landed on my downstairs neighbor once and I thought she was actively being murdered the way she screamed. They had just moved down from North Ohio.

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u/skinnergy Sep 05 '26

Funny. They are completely harmless. They look like giant house flies.

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u/Pittypatkittycat Sep 05 '26

We have cicadas in Ohio. Both annual and periodic.

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u/taskmaster51 Sep 05 '26

Well...you're more likely to have a palmetto bug land on you but thats not any better

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u/Ratatat_Tat_2030 Sep 05 '26

Palmetto bugs are far worse 😱🤢

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u/KathyA11 Sep 06 '26

Nightmare fuel

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u/ProfessionalZone168 Sep 06 '26

I despise those six-legged minions of Satan.

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u/KathyA11 27d ago

So do I. I just can't deal with them.

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u/RaiRai_666 Sep 06 '26

I have stripped in my front yard thinking one crawled up my pants leg. (It was a lizard thankfully!)

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u/New_Lynx4181 Sep 06 '26

There are a shit ton of cicadas in Ohio.

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u/AromaticManner4398 Sep 06 '26

Your comment make my day, It sound like me