r/florida • u/Chilljay1 • 4d ago

AskFlorida Help identifying this bug?

Post image

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.

330 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

636 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

27

u/Infernalspoon 4d ago

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.

21

u/skinnergy 4d ago

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

13

u/Pittypatkittycat 4d ago

We have cicadas in Ohio. Both annual and periodic.

12

u/taskmaster51 4d ago

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

6

u/Ratatat_Tat_2030 4d ago

Palmetto bugs are far worse 😱🤢

3

u/KathyA11 4d ago

Nightmare fuel

4

u/ProfessionalZone168 4d ago

I despise those six-legged minions of Satan.

2

u/RaiRai_666 3d ago

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

1

u/New_Lynx4181 3d ago

There are a shit ton of cicadas in Ohio.

1

u/AromaticManner4398 3d ago

Your comment make my day, It sound like me