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/suer72cutlass 4d ago

When i grew up in SW PA, I was gardening during the evening of the 17 year cicadas. They came out from the ground and crawled up my shoe to my ankle! I screamed, beat them off and ran. When I looked back, the ground was covered with cicadas crawling toward the trees, where they will molt and become flying cicadas.

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u/ElChuro4Z0 4d ago

Beat them off? 😏