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Any non god fearing entomologists out there who can identify this critter who's living under our table in the yard? It's a big bugger, about 2" long! If so, can they eat plastic tables? 🙂

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Austin-Cambridge 8 Jan 30
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Level 7

Great with hot sauce!!

Or dipped in chocolate syrup. Lots of protein.
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Level 8

It just looks like a grasshopper to me. We used to catch them all the time and use them for bait. Smallmouth bass love them.

BD66 Level 8 Jan 30, 2022
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Level 7

Isn’t that a grasshopper?

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Level 8

That's a pretty big grasshopper but I wouldn't say it was a giant grasshopper, those are much more rare.

Is that real?

@barjoe No but it has been fooling a lot of people for decades as a 1950's pre Photoshop postcard from the USA. They did a pretty good job of patching two photos together to make it look real.

@barjoe They had fun with postcards in the west:

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Level 8

Grasshoppers can get huge.

They puke what called tobacco juice as a kid.

All those times I would have my hands cupped together as a child.

No! No! No! Lori NO!
I Don't want to SEE it!

Don't you even THINK about throwing that on ME!

Bad child!! Sure hope that's changed LOL

@Paganlyl Long lineage of critter catchers. Cousins in FL actually caught alligators.

Half feral as kids I think. Fun way to grow up, though.
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Level 8

We had a small plague of them back in the summer of 98' in OK ... They go "CRUNCH" as your driving over them. 😁

During that particular wave, my BIL said he was going to have to buy hay for his herd of grasshoppers bc they ate all the grass!
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Level 10

Big grasshopper

bobwjr Level 10 Jan 30, 2022
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Level 6

Grasshopper. They only eat plastic if there’s no greenery to eat.🤣

Oh shit, our table is green! 🙂
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Level 8

Grasshopper. Use to us them as fishing bait when I was a kid.

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Level 9

It's a grasshopper. Yes. They get that big.

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Level 9

Closest I can get is some species of insect.
🤷‍♀️

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Level 9

Definitely of the Grasshopper/Locust Species/family, though most 'hoppers stick to devouring plants the Locusts are widely know for eating almost anything, plastics included.

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Level 8

I once saw one nearly that big attached to the screen of my patio door. I was shocked at how huge it was. It just stayed there motionless for about two hours before flying off. I had no idea grasshoppers go t that big before seeing it for myself This was at least 25 years ago.

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Level 8

Google 'grasshopper taco' if you dare.

Cheers for that, I keep saying we ought to have an emoji for puke! 🙂
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Level 6

Get the ranch dressing. eat up.

Fried or boiled? 🙂
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Level 8

Hmmm. Have there been any UFO sightings in your area recently?

Nah, just mine! 🙂
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Level 9

Locust like big grasshopper. If you move it keep your fingers away from it's mouth. Otherwise, it will not hurt you.

That why everyone calls you lefty?
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Level 7

That’s one of those Texan grasshoppers!!! Careful it doesn’t try and convert ya!!!🤠

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Level 8

Looks like a grasshopper.

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Level 8

The Japanese will eat it, seasoned with soy sauce and sake. Lol

Ryo1 Level 8 Jan 30, 2022
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That doesn’t limit it by much…

@Canndue

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Level 9

turkeys, among others, love to have a belly full.

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During my 15 years in Florida I saw lots of “palmetto bugs,” four-inch-long roach-like creatures that flew. They congregated under streetlights and, when walked on, they crunched loudly.

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