#lubber grasshoppers

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: JUNE 15TH, 2024 | Image IDs: Seven photos of roughly seven young lubber grasshoppers on hydrangea plants, five of them are on the same plant, with two on the same leaf, with no flowers, whereas the last two are on separate, smaller plants, with flowers, partially wilted /End IDs.]

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Not all grasshoppers hop! Although they have both wings and the large hind feet characteristic of the group Caelifera, Eastern lubber grasshoppers prefers to walk from one place to another-- hence the name 'lubber', from the old English 'lobre' which means lazy.

(Image: An eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea microptera) by the Big Cypress National Preserve)

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[briery]

Robust Toad Lubber (Phrynotettix robustus).

[whale-falls]

These fucking idiots (affectionate)

[textless]

Chihuahua lubber nymph.  Cochise County, Arizona, April 2023.

[wizardryig]

yall shut up and look at the pictures my bf sent me

just an eastern lubber grasshopper (Romalea guttata) :)))

[spinus-pinus]

Eastern Lubber Grasshopper Romalea microptera

6/14/2022 Everglades National Park, Florida

[dinoserious]

day 12 eastern lubber grasshopper. lubbaboy

[pelagodes]

One of my favorite hoppers. Big ole eastern lubbers

[jupiterswasphouse]

[PHOTOS TAKEN: MAY 12TH, 2024 | Image IDs: Eight photos of a bunch of baby lubber grasshoppers amongst brown dirt and leaves and green grass, with one of them then crawling onto a human hand /End IDs.]

I saw tons of these guys in one spot! These are the young of those giant lubber grasshoppers that are common in this area

[vpofcookies]

Another day another chance to grab some friends

Oh. Or enemies.

[herpsandbirds]

Reticulate Lubber Grasshopper (Taeniopoda reticulata), mating, family Romaleidae, La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica

photograph by Hans Hillewaert

[onenicebugperday]

Plains lubber grasshopper, Brachystola magna, Romaleidae

Found in the central US and down into Mexico

Photos 1-2 by philly96, 3 by wild-about-texas, 4 by pufferchung, 5 by mlodinow, 6 by benjamin189, 7 by fvaldesp_tutor, 8 by greglasley, 9 by sambiology, and 10 by khoskins

[whale-falls]

Happy good Friday

[topios]

An eastern lubber grasshopper with amanita jacksonii.

[extinguishergirl]

Seeing lubber grasshoppers dead always makes me feel so melancholic. It feels like such a grand bug should live for longer than 5 months. It doesn't help that every time I see one dead it's in an oddly heroic, proud pose