I was puttering around the back yard this morning and came across this new friend, cant say I want to get to close to it though. Its body is about 3 inches long. Some kind of beetle on my banana plant. Then I came across this giant grasshopper, my neighbor said these suckers would eat any plant in my yard.
That first one is what we call a stinkbug; we have them here in Texas too. If you get to close to it it will spray out some horrid smelling stuff that is hard to wash out. They like sunflower plants as well. Every now and then one of the cats or dog will try to eat one and they will immediately spit it out and foam at the mouth for an hour. The stink is a well respected repellant.
That grasshopper is huge! Are you sure it's not a locust?
that's what we call a warrior grasshopper here on the prairie. the drought has them not as thick this year.
they have no fear...
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jcboy
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Thu 22 Sep, 2011 02:21 pm
Yes and those grasshoppers are huge around here, you have to kill them or they will eat every plant in the yard. Antonio caught one the other day in my salad spinner he took out of the kitchen.
Yeah jcboy, why on earth did you move from CA to FL ? The humidity alone would kill me, never mind those horrible bugs.
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Pemerson
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Thu 22 Sep, 2011 03:12 pm
@Aldistar,
Are you sure that 1st is a stink bug? I find those here & there in the yard (Texas) but they don't seem to stink when you smash them. Looks like a Humvee to me but I think it's some kind of beatle. I think stink bugs look more like big gray June bugs. Interesting life, rolling balls of poop.
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Pemerson
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Thu 22 Sep, 2011 03:23 pm
@jcboy,
I know what you mean, those Florida bugs. Have you seen a Palmetto bug yet? Frightening thing, it is. You get those when you don't keep the Palmetto psalm trees trimmed and the dead stuff cleaned out. We used to do that for my husband's parents when they lived there. After they died, we sold that house. The humidity is too too terrible. They lived in Venice and took that literally, building canals in the subdivisions. What they got was alligators. But, I love Fl. in the fall & spring.
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jcboy
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Thu 22 Sep, 2011 04:48 pm
We left it in the salad spinner until we came home from dinner, now it's loose somewhere in the house. I won't sleep a wink tonight. Sigh.
It was living in the salad spinner for two days on the patio. He was feeding it bread and wanted to keep it. He brought it in the house, now it’s gone and the cats are searching for it. I’ll be sleeping with one cat tonight and he will be sleeping with the other one.
HAHAHA these cats know it’s in the house somewhere, one of them has been starring at the curtains in the living room. I’m not looking for it; Marco can find it when he comes home tomorrow.
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tsarstepan
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Thu 22 Sep, 2011 06:04 pm
@jcboy,
jcboy wrote:
We left it in the salad spinner until we came home from dinner, now it's loose somewhere in the house. I won't sleep a wink tonight. Sigh.
There's an entire B movie monster film that could come from this mess somewhere. Perhaps directed by John Waters.
Perhaps directed by John Waters.
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