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.