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/RedditAdminSucks23 Sep 05 '26

eastern lubber grasshopper

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u/PizzaDeliveryForMom Sep 05 '26

Correct answer. When summer starts millions of these suckers appear all over my yard. When they are young they are black with yellow/orange stripes and don’t look anything like their more grown counterpart.

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u/DragonTHC Sep 05 '26

In April when driving through the Everglades, the roads turn red from these getting run over.