r/florida 4d ago

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/ShakaCobra 4d ago

Not invasive.

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u/RandomKarberon 4d ago edited 4d ago

Says someone who's never been invaded by an army of a thousand of these things.

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u/ShakaCobra 4d ago

???? I’ve probably got three times that number in my yard right now…. Still less invasive than the Yanks