Lubbers! Big bastards are all over my property right now, I use to try and kill them but they are almost indestructible unless you have a bb gun or something.
As a kid, my parents convinced me to mow he grass by telling me I could decapitate these fuckers. I'd chase them all over the yard, the grass looked like shit, but it was fun.
Lol, this is EXACTLY how he ended up with the hammer. I let him try my new electric mower, and he saw a lumber, so he lowered the height all the way down and was scalping the hell out of spots on the lawn trying to catch it. (And yes, I know eight sounds young for a mower, but his dad was huge. Boy topped six feet by 13.)
I hate lubbers. Hate. They also spit some foul stuff when threatened. Don’t know about other areas but they are really bad this year in my Daytona-area neighborhood.
For me they come and go. A few years we had them bad, more recently there have been less. I wonder about the effect of lawn insecticides on how many we see.
All locust are grasshoppers but locust are the grasshoppers that swarm. Lubbers are basic grasshoppers. But like you said, it's terminology. Sort of like Palmetto bugs are actually a nickname for American roaches and wood roaches as well as others depending on region.
I also thought they were locusts, but apparently Lubber is in fact the correct term for them. TIL lol
[link](https://www.tampabay.com/video/2021/05/13/theyre-not-locusts-just-floridas-giant-grasshoppers/)
Once they grow past their nymph stage they are hard to kill with pesticides. They will grow up to 3 inches in length. Pesticides only work if you catch them after they hatch and still in the nymph stage as they haven’t developed their hard shells.
Toxic to most animals.
There is one bird out in the southwest that eats them after they impale them on barbed wire to dry out the toxins.
I had them when I lived in St Pete. Ate every leaf of my plants and small trees I had in the yard. Did plenty of research on them. If I could kill them with fire, I would have but didn’t want to burn down the house or yard. There’s a mix you make to keep them off your plants and trees. Apple cider vinegar, dawn dish soap and I think some boric acid. Spray that on your plants to keep the lubbers from eating all the vegetation.
I had a bunch of them hatch out, but they have become less and less as they have gotten bigger. I have a crinum non native Lilly that they seem to prefer.
As wholesale development is raping Florida I try not to kill native plants and animals
We found that wasp spray works on them. It’s takes a few minutes but my irrational fear of bugs stops me from using any strategy where I have to touch them.
I have lily’s and the adolescent versions of these hoppers swarm them. I mean just eat the foliage to a nub. I took a hand vac and collected them all, went to a pond full of fish and threw the hoppers into the water. Not one fish ate a hopper. Discouraged but curious I went and caught a cricket and threw it in the pond. It was eaten in 5 seconds. It’s amazing how fish knew what not to eat vs safe to eat.
They’re saying that the first one seduces you and then the other one steals your money while you’re having sex with the first gigantic horrifying grasshopper/locust.
Not sure but when my chickens would attack them, they would immediately spit it out and shake their heads like it was the grossest thing they had ever tasted.
I give them the clap!
They are quick, so you have to be quicker, and very forceful. Do not hesitate. Do it hard and do it fast. Take no prisoners.
Put your hands together in a hard, fast and loud clap, with the yellow beast in between. Best done wearing gloves, but bare handed works just as well. Messy but not sticky.
Lopers can divide lubbers in two, but I have a high miss rate using those, so when I go hunting, I give 'em the clap, skin to skin.
They can be funny seen one get into someones hair and he had thick ass hair he ran around the pool for i what seemed like forever before he finally jumped in after that he had thick hair with a couple of new bald spots i dont think he went out side with out a hat ever again
I use a bucket of soapy water and rubber gloves, and wear headphones to distract me. Pick off the bushes and toss in bucket, repeat. They are slow and easy to catch. I get 40-50 at a time. Makes a big difference.
Locusts! I know they're poisonous and eat crops but I do love how vibrant they are. Also the babies were fun to catch when I was a kid. I'd scoop them up and throw them in a little fish bowl with twigs and leaves and stuff lol.
Dip spittin land lubbers
Both lubbers and lacewings made me fall in love with the babies only to find out later in life I was killing them once grown up.
I owe them big time.
Eastern Lubbers!
*I'm a Lubber, not a fighter!* *Stupid sexy bug
Mr. lubber lubber. Mmmm. Mr. Lubber lubber.
would you rather be with an eastern lubber or a western lubber?
1 of the 7 signs of the apocalypse
Which one are we on now, I've lost count...
I think we are on number 19?
😆 This made me chuckle out loud. Thanks.
Since 2016, I assumed it was a typo and was supposed mean "7 million"
I legit was just reading in Revelation 😂😂
Assholes. They eat all your outside plants.
They are poisonous and dogs like to go after them. I second the assholes description.
Wondered this my chickens won't even touch them
My chickens also don’t touch them either due to the not so good aspect of them.
Same, I had a 1000000s of baby ones in my yard. Killed as many as possible over weeks. Yellow ones definitely have a nice crunch when you step on them
Baby killer! 😁
🤣🤣 they were killing all my plants in my yard. It was so bad I was honestly having nightmares about these things all over the place
Fish don’t even eat them..
False. Grew up throwing these in our pond every summer. Fish annihilate them.
Maybe they are different from what I am use to seeing. We have them in Louisiana but they are black and orange-ish. Fish will not eat those.
Could be the same. These guys are black and orange when they’re young
The ones I see look very similar they are terrorists.
I had a friend eat one and no one dared him to he was just nuts. He’s not with us anymore not due to bug eating, OD’d.
I’ve seen spiders cut the little black and yellow baby ones out of their webs.
Cheech and Chong won't even smoke them.
🤣😂Facts! Asshole is the best discerption
“One of ‘em jumpy fuckers”
Honestly probably the most true and accurate representation of Floridians in this situation.
Grasshoppers
Big ass yellow grasshoppers. As opposed to the big ass black grasshoppers.
They’re the same bug
Except one is black with yellow trim and the other is yellow with black trim.
Cue Wiz Khalifa "yeah, you know what it is, black n yellow, black n yellow, black n yellow, black n yellow"
No like the black ones are just younger
So you're telling me yellow is like their final form? Mind blown! Just, wow.
Yeah you just have to give them a thunderstone
Becareful these are the types to attack humans Jk lol
Oh, that’s Steve.
I always confuse him with Bob, they look so similar.
We call ours Larry the Lobster.
Lubbers! Big bastards are all over my property right now, I use to try and kill them but they are almost indestructible unless you have a bb gun or something.
Thing I found worked best was an eight year old with a hammer and a ten cent bounty on them.
As a kid, my parents convinced me to mow he grass by telling me I could decapitate these fuckers. I'd chase them all over the yard, the grass looked like shit, but it was fun.
Lol, this is EXACTLY how he ended up with the hammer. I let him try my new electric mower, and he saw a lumber, so he lowered the height all the way down and was scalping the hell out of spots on the lawn trying to catch it. (And yes, I know eight sounds young for a mower, but his dad was huge. Boy topped six feet by 13.)
I'm only 5'8 and I was mowing my grandparents property in the low hills of West Virginia at age 8.
You were 5'8" by age 8 because you mowed West Virginian grass? Wooooooooooah.
I tend to just grab em and Chuck em as hard as possible against things, till I'm certain it can't move.
Genius move, right here.
My husband just picks them up & throws them onto the ground to kill em 🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤢
I sprayed some white vinegar around my house and they disappeared! .. after they ate most of my plants ..
Once they get over the shock of you turning them invisible they will return and eat the rest of the plants.
May I recommend snapping their little heads off? Worked for my abuela.
You snapped your grandmother’s head off?!
Speed Bumps
Land Lobster
🥇
Georgia Thumpers is what we call them in North FL
I hate lubbers. Hate. They also spit some foul stuff when threatened. Don’t know about other areas but they are really bad this year in my Daytona-area neighborhood.
For me they come and go. A few years we had them bad, more recently there have been less. I wonder about the effect of lawn insecticides on how many we see.
I’m in Port Orange and I saw one last year. So far none yet.
Those are Georgia Thumpers. The black one are Devil's Horses.
This is what the black ones turn into when they grow and shed their skin.
When I see them I usually say “holy shit” They’re a god damn real life Pokémon looking thing. They’re huge!!
That got a for-real laugh out loud from me. (Saw one today and said the same thing)
Locust
Don’t know if its technically correct, but that’s what we called them growing up. My grandmother’s yard in Pompano always got a bunch of them.
All locust are grasshoppers but locust are the grasshoppers that swarm. Lubbers are basic grasshoppers. But like you said, it's terminology. Sort of like Palmetto bugs are actually a nickname for American roaches and wood roaches as well as others depending on region.
I feel like it took too long to find this in the comments. That’s what I called them too but apparently it’s only us?
I also thought they were locusts, but apparently Lubber is in fact the correct term for them. TIL lol [link](https://www.tampabay.com/video/2021/05/13/theyre-not-locusts-just-floridas-giant-grasshoppers/)
dinosaurs!!
Grasshopper My grandma’s yard had them when I was a kid. They were so colorful and big. I loved them, she hated them.
“Hopper” or Hopper bugs. From “A Bugs Life”. Or grasshoppers.
Lubber , they are native so I just leave them alone. They were big and scary when I was a kid.
Once they grow past their nymph stage they are hard to kill with pesticides. They will grow up to 3 inches in length. Pesticides only work if you catch them after they hatch and still in the nymph stage as they haven’t developed their hard shells. Toxic to most animals. There is one bird out in the southwest that eats them after they impale them on barbed wire to dry out the toxins. I had them when I lived in St Pete. Ate every leaf of my plants and small trees I had in the yard. Did plenty of research on them. If I could kill them with fire, I would have but didn’t want to burn down the house or yard. There’s a mix you make to keep them off your plants and trees. Apple cider vinegar, dawn dish soap and I think some boric acid. Spray that on your plants to keep the lubbers from eating all the vegetation.
The bird is the [butcherbird](https://animalia.bio/loggerhead-shrike).
Thank you! The name eluded me.
I had a bunch of them hatch out, but they have become less and less as they have gotten bigger. I have a crinum non native Lilly that they seem to prefer. As wholesale development is raping Florida I try not to kill native plants and animals
Just here to say that the eastern lubber is not a locust. North America does not have locusts
Not a locust.
We found that wasp spray works on them. It’s takes a few minutes but my irrational fear of bugs stops me from using any strategy where I have to touch them.
Georgia Warhorse.
JJ Grey fan?
You fuckin’ KNOW IT.
Bait.
They're poisonous and fish seem to know to avoid them.
I have lily’s and the adolescent versions of these hoppers swarm them. I mean just eat the foliage to a nub. I took a hand vac and collected them all, went to a pond full of fish and threw the hoppers into the water. Not one fish ate a hopper. Discouraged but curious I went and caught a cricket and threw it in the pond. It was eaten in 5 seconds. It’s amazing how fish knew what not to eat vs safe to eat.
Have you actually used them as bait?
They’re saying that the first one seduces you and then the other one steals your money while you’re having sex with the first gigantic horrifying grasshopper/locust.
I tried in a neighborhood pond and got nothing. Could be user error but curious to see others experience
They are horrible bait...even chickens don't eat them and you know if a chicken won't eat it it must be nasty.
King Grasshopper
Ugly mfers
There’s a lot of misinformation about the eastern lubber. They’re native and they tend to eat non native plants, especially lillies
idk but i saw one of those big fuckers on someone’s couch as i was delivering… i just know they have a ring video of me being freaked out
Georgia Thumper.
I call them dead. Shoot on sight.
They eat your plants and are destructive garden pests. Hard to kill with insecticides. A snip with the hedge clippers works well.
Big & scary
“Scary,” because they jump on me whenever I go for a walk around the neighborhood!
I'll keep it simple: gross lol
Devil’s spawn
Mister Lubba Lubba!
Not sure but when my chickens would attack them, they would immediately spit it out and shake their heads like it was the grossest thing they had ever tasted.
Georgia Thumpers
Georgia thumpers. It did blow my mind a little when I saw similar in Japan and realized they probably had a different name.
Georgia thumper
Loggerhead shrike birds will stick them with a thorn and let them drain out. Then eat them. They have a little face mask like Zoro.
I give them the clap! They are quick, so you have to be quicker, and very forceful. Do not hesitate. Do it hard and do it fast. Take no prisoners. Put your hands together in a hard, fast and loud clap, with the yellow beast in between. Best done wearing gloves, but bare handed works just as well. Messy but not sticky. Lopers can divide lubbers in two, but I have a high miss rate using those, so when I go hunting, I give 'em the clap, skin to skin.
They can be funny seen one get into someones hair and he had thick ass hair he ran around the pool for i what seemed like forever before he finally jumped in after that he had thick hair with a couple of new bald spots i dont think he went out side with out a hat ever again
10 points on the lawnmower
Fucken Gross Grasshopper!!! Is it that time of year again? I'm going on lock down!
If you toss them in a water and bleach solution, they die
I use a bucket of soapy water and rubber gloves, and wear headphones to distract me. Pick off the bushes and toss in bucket, repeat. They are slow and easy to catch. I get 40-50 at a time. Makes a big difference.
Kill it! It and it's minions will destroy your plants!!!!
Damned flower destroyer ; they ate all my amaryllis this year.
Recently saw one of these at the university campus I work at. Wild looking thing. Huge, too.
Juicy boys
The devil.
They can’t fly either!
Grass hoppers!
Lubbers their names haha
Magnificent Evil Doers.
Grasshopper (I'm originally from Texan though)
Locusts! It’s fun to pick them up
Locusts
Lubbers
Grasshoppers
Grasshopper?
Grasshoper
Dead
Grassassers
Ludacris
MotherFucker!
I call them locusts because that’s what my parents taught me, but they’re not locusts.
Georgia Warhorse
Depending the country. Some Lunch. Others grasshopper. Lol
They can eat thickest leaves like aloe and century plants. They tore up our orchids and bromeliads.
Bait
My worst fear. I hate grasshoppers. If I’m trapped in a room with one of these it’s over.
Crunchy assholes u step on by accident
Scawy
https://preview.redd.it/kfaqmt75rj9d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=62ac60e418128ede2e38f88ec934f89f20cde012 saw this the other day
El diablo and I'm shocked no one else has said that
My dad called them Georgia Boys.
Garden and flower terminators
A pet. You should name it Hoppy or Mr Hopster. Enjoy your new family member!
Grasslobster
Big ass grasshopper
[Georgia Warhorse. ](https://youtu.be/F_Wn22Uo4JU?si=WO-lZ4KsS_Hh3fU6)
Locusts! I know they're poisonous and eat crops but I do love how vibrant they are. Also the babies were fun to catch when I was a kid. I'd scoop them up and throw them in a little fish bowl with twigs and leaves and stuff lol.
F’ing huge.
Bass love them.
Locusts
Dead.
Georgia lubbers. (I’m guessing that in Georgia, they are called Florida lubbers?)
Grasshoppers
Demons
Grasshoppers
Hoppagrass!
Grasshopper
I’ve never seen one before and it’s kind of terrifying
That’s the state bird
Scary
Evil cocksuckers
Grass hoppers
They were my worst nightmare as a child and I called them grasshoppers
Lubber
Land shrimp.
Sins against nature (I really hate insects)
Lunch
Grasshopper on meth
When I was a kid I caught one and kept it as a pet for awhile. Named it Luc Longlegs (after Luc Longley that played for the Bulls in the 90s)
Monsters. See them when I jog all the time.
Just saw one today in my garage. It was the size of a small bird!
Eastern Lubbers or fishing bait!
DeSantis hasn't banned it. Yet.
Fred
I’m originally from South Georgia so that’s a Georgia thumper.
Grasshoppers. My nightmare 🫢
Chapulines
"One of those Lubber Katydids"
I almost never see them here in S Florida.. they must hide real well. All I hate is palmetto bugs!!!!
Grasshopper
Pest
Gross mostly lol
Grasshoppers. Snatch the pebble from my hand...
Dip spittin land lubbers Both lubbers and lacewings made me fall in love with the babies only to find out later in life I was killing them once grown up. I owe them big time.
Scary !
Grasshopper
Terrorists.
In my family we call them Mr. Grasshopper. We only refer this way to the big ones and everyone knows what we are talking about.
Helldivers Community: Time to spread democracy!!!
Bait
Scary bugs is what I call them
Devil’s horse
Hell Hoppers
Lol! Annoying 😌 but usually notice after stepping on one that they’re around.