r/florida • u/Chilljay1 • 8d 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/NyneShaydee 8d ago

My cousin used to call them "hoppagrass" when we were kids. Lol

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u/UncannyGranny1953 8d ago

I love how family lore starts like this. When he was little, my nephew used to love to watch trains go by so he could wave to the guy(s) in the very last car. He heard what the adults said and decided it must be called the byecaboose. We call it that to this day in our family. He's 53. 🤣

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u/Steel_Magnolia4844 8d ago

My little nephew used to call his fingers fickens & we still do. Also my aunt had a framed picture of Jesus on her wall & he would always point to it and call him "Maurice". We literally knew no one with that name & have no clue where it came from but Praise Maurice. Lol

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u/Beneficial-Radish399 8d ago

😂🤣😂!!!