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What are these giant grasshopper/locust things flying around Monroe?
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:16 pm
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:16 pm
They’re everywhere. It’s like the cross between a grasshopper and a mosquito or something. All over the place. The plague. I’m worried about my first born son dying next.
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Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:17 pm to DavidTheGnome
Radroaches
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:17 pm to DavidTheGnome
Probably giant grasshoppers/locusts.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:17 pm to DavidTheGnome
I hope they bite your anus and then die in your butthole and get stuck in the jungled hair of your poopchute.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:18 pm to DavidTheGnome
Miniature Reddit drones
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:25 pm to DavidTheGnome
Horse lubber grasshoppers. They were around last year too. I’m not an entomologist, but I would guess it has something to do with us getting those giant Saharan dust clouds as they normally stick around dry arid climates.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:28 pm to The Pirate King
So those thing flew across the Atlantic from Africa?
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:29 pm to The Pirate King
That looks like a foot long and several pounds. These are large but not that big.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:31 pm to The Pirate King
In Lafayette they boil them in plain water and throw Tony's on them in the ice chest.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:31 pm to The Pirate King
I’m pretty sure those are native to Louisiana
I’ve always seen them In the summer growing up in Plaquemines parish
I’ve always seen them In the summer growing up in Plaquemines parish
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:31 pm to DavidTheGnome
Way back when, we would spray paint them. Resilient they are!
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:32 pm to DavidTheGnome
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That looks like a foot long and several pounds. These are large but not that big.
It’s just the picture usually they’re around 3-5” long
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:33 pm to The Pirate King
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I’m not an entomologist, but I would guess it has something to do with us getting those giant Saharan dust clouds as they normally stick around dry arid climates.
Clearly. Lubber grasshoppers, or the "devil's horse", are native to Louisiana and the southeast in general, and can be found across the state in the summer. Louisiana is hardly a dry, arid climate.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:35 pm to DavidTheGnome
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like the cross between a grasshopper and a mosquito or something
Mole Crickets. They suck balls and tear up yards but don't bite.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:35 pm to Cowboyfan89
I don’t think whatever I’m seeing lots of are grasshoppers though. They kind of look like them but then again kind of not.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:36 pm to ThreauxDown
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I’m pretty sure those are native to Louisiana I’ve always seen them In the summer growing up in Plaquemines parish
It looks like there are western and eastern lubber grasshoppers. The eastern are more yellow, and the western are more black.
I’ve seen both here in Baton Rouge
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:36 pm to The Pirate King
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Horse lubber grasshoppers
We dissected one of those in science class one time.
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:37 pm to mikelbr
Definitely not mole crickets.
Their bodies are pretty small and they have big wings
Their bodies are pretty small and they have big wings
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:38 pm to The Pirate King
Both of those look like they’re the size of a small cat
Posted on 6/30/19 at 6:38 pm to The Pirate King
Why would that be a cross between a grasshopper and a mosquito
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