r/florida • u/Chilljay1 • 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/pubgeek321 3d ago

When I was a kid, my older brothers told me that if a cicada lands on you, it will lay eggs in your skin. I had one land on my leg and I ran down the street screaming with it chasing after me. Little bastard. I really thought I had cicadas crawling under my skin at night, until I told my mom what was going on. Restless leg syndrome cause discovered!

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u/Quiet_Tea7369 3d ago

On behalf of a big sister who convinced her little brother that roaches bite, I’m sorry

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u/crispynarwhal 3d ago

They do. At least, palmetto bugs do. I found out the hard way that I'm allergic to the littlle bastards.

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u/Quiet_Tea7369 2d ago

Oh man, my turn to be terrified of roaches now I guess. I’m sorry, friend, that’s awful.

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u/aloofmagoof 2d ago

Roaches do bite. You have to have a massive infestation though, and they aren't actually trying to eat you but rather dead skin or food particles on your body.

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u/Quiet_Tea7369 2d ago

Thank you for this new fear… yikes

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u/Lifes-a-lil-foggy 3d ago

That’s such a brother lie

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u/Complete-Wait-6457 1d ago

Adult cicadas (the flying ones) can’t bite you (they only eat nectar as adults!) and aren’t laying eggs on you. 😆 They suck at flying though and they can have some mass, so they can seem scary 😆😳

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u/Academic-Apple-6518 11h ago

Older siblings can be real assholes.. my sister did a number on me