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12 years ago

more interested in reproducing than eating, slight damage. started from a seed from leu's arid garden.

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starryrider
12 years ago
hope you killed him/her
johnjsr
12 years ago
I've never seen one of those....until this morning. It doesn't look like any stage of a lubber that I recall seeing. Snip! Pretty sure it wasn't a beneficial insect.
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zzackey
12 years ago
Geez! What a monster! Looks the same size as a land lubber. I only had the the yellow ones when I lived near Vero Beach. I don't have them up here. I've killed 2 small odd shaped green ones that I thought were eating my bean leaves. I thought they were small katydids.
dirtygardener73
12 years ago
The plant looks a little like a sea grape, but the leaves are wrong. Yep, that's a lubber. They can be green, brown, yellow or black.
gatormomx2
12 years ago
This is not an Eastern Lubber.
It is Schistocerca obscura (Fabricius). This species belongs to a group of especially strong fliers called "bird" grasshoppers. Its taste for certain valuable ornamental plants such as hibiscus often brings it into conflict with humans .

From this link with excellent photos for ID:

Here is a link that might be useful: Common Grasshoppers in Florida

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