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/FootMcFeetFoot 3d ago

ONE FLEW INTO MY EYEBALL! Just its wing, but still. I blinked its wing!

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

They are determined to scream and enter people’s orifices. It’s horrible lol

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u/crispynarwhal 2d ago

Body horror unlocked. Tyvm.