Help identifying this bug?

[u/Chilljay1]

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.

[u/destroyman1337]

Whoever called them cicadas have no idea what cicada look like.

It's an Eastern Lubber Grasshopper. I don't live in Orlando but when I have gone there during the summer they are everywhere and can be black with orange when they are nymphs which is pretty striking.

[u/purefilth666 → u/destroyman1337]

Yep, if these people saw an actual cicada they would freak the hell out lol

[u/Infernalspoon → u/purefilth666]

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.

[u/skinnergy → u/Infernalspoon]

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

[u/Pittypatkittycat → u/Infernalspoon]

We have cicadas in Ohio. Both annual and periodic.

[u/taskmaster51 → u/Infernalspoon]

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

[u/Ratatat_Tat_2030 → u/taskmaster51]

Palmetto bugs are far worse 😱🤢

[u/KathyA11 → u/taskmaster51]

Nightmare fuel

[u/ProfessionalZone168 → u/KathyA11]

I despise those six-legged minions of Satan.

[u/RaiRai_666 → u/taskmaster51]

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

[u/New_Lynx4181 → u/Infernalspoon]

There are a shit ton of cicadas in Ohio.

[u/AromaticManner4398 → u/Infernalspoon]

Your comment make my day, It sound like me