While Brood X cicadas are getting all the attention this year, Florida’s annual swarm of Eastern Lubber grasshoppers have ... the following year to start the cycle anew. Nature Preserve Ranger ...

Most grasshoppers do not reach populations that cause serious damage to agricultural crops and landscape plants, but the eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera) is one of the exceptions.

The large, brightly colored Eastern lubber grasshopper is hard to miss. Its bright orange, yellow and red colors are a warning to predators that it contains toxins that will make it sick.

Is this the beginning of the end? I certainly thought it might be while doing a recent story about giant Eastern lubber grasshoppers that have been on the rampage in Florida. The big hoppers ...

It's actually a cousin of the common grasshopper, and is called a lubber. Great name, huh? They are so big and so weird, there are all sorts of local names. Up in Camden, my wife tells me ...

Common name - Lubber grasshopper (Hantsbarger, 1979); Plains lubber (Ball et al., 1942) or the Homesteader (Tinkham, 1948). Geographic distribution - east of the Rocky Mountains from North Dakota ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida lawns are once again being overrun by grasshoppers. Each year, the springtime sun coaxes eastern lubber grasshoppers from their homes in the soil. Hundreds can ...