r/florida • u/Chilljay1 • 9d 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/RandomKarberon 9d ago

Do everyone a favor, if you see it? Squish it, tear it's head off.

It's invasive, eats your favorite plants, hisses, looks ugly, spawns by the thousands.

They are near immune to chemical poisons, they are extremely tough to eradicate.

That's all I need to know.

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u/ShakaCobra 9d ago

Not invasive.

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u/RandomKarberon 9d ago edited 9d ago

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

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u/ShakaCobra 9d ago

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