Anniekay
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- Location
- Quitman, Ga.
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
Anyone ever seen one like this? I haven't and thought there was something wrong with my eyes.
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Orange grasshopper, believe it or not !!
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Anyone ever seen one like this? I haven't and thought there was something wrong with my eyes.
Meadowlark
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- Hardiness zone
- 9a
The Eastern lubber grasshopper is prevalent in Florida and depending on diet is commonly orange in color. Not sure it is the same as in your picture but it is orange colored.
Anniekay
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- Location
- Quitman, Ga.
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
The one you pictured has yellow and black on him. This one was totally orange. Doesn't remind me of a lubber at all.
I haven't seen Lubber grasshoppers on my property at all since I've lived here, but did have then in Florida. They are normally, when young, black with a tip of orangey red then start getting green with black, yellow and a little orange. They get HUGE and you can't miss them if you have them.
I've never seen a totally orange one and I didn't have any big lubbers, or the newly hatched black ones that you see sitting on the tips of the grass in the early morning on the property at all. It seems odd I'd have an orange one but no big adults around.
This orange one was just 1 1/4" long and the only one I found, all the rest of my grasshoppers were the normal,
1 1 /4" long green ones.
Weird !!
I haven't seen Lubber grasshoppers on my property at all since I've lived here, but did have then in Florida. They are normally, when young, black with a tip of orangey red then start getting green with black, yellow and a little orange. They get HUGE and you can't miss them if you have them.
I've never seen a totally orange one and I didn't have any big lubbers, or the newly hatched black ones that you see sitting on the tips of the grass in the early morning on the property at all. It seems odd I'd have an orange one but no big adults around.
This orange one was just 1 1/4" long and the only one I found, all the rest of my grasshoppers were the normal,
1 1 /4" long green ones.
Weird !!
Anniekay
Well-known member
- Location
- Quitman, Ga.
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
He was too big to be a nymph I think, although, I suppose it's possible, and he looked just like my normal fully grown green ones only he's orange.I rather think that this little chap was just a nymph. His colours will become more apparent when he is a big boy.
Might be a natural variation of the green ones.?
