"Lubber" on blackeyed Susans

Oh my. Very catching! Makes a great banner.

I just can't get used to critters in the banners, no matter how stunning the photography... it induces EEK every time...

I love it!!

It does make for an interesting banner! Jean, I hope you killed that guy after you got his picture!

Love the banner- I also love catching photos of critters!

@Hetty, sorry I creeped you out with the lubber.

terrafirma said:It does make for an interesting banner! Jean, I hope you killed that guy after you got his picture!

@terrafirma, This was one I missed earlier in the year when I was doing the lubber stomp, but I finished him off after the photo! I had never seen them before moving to FL and couldn't believe how destructive they are. They can decimate plants in an extremely short time.

Boy they sure can!!! In a heartbeat!!! Good for you!

Great Banner!

He was very photogenic. I'm sure he died happy (with a full stomach)!

Amazing shot of that lubber, but it's kind of freaking me out!

@Natalie What really freaks me out is seeing my plants being eaten! They are reminiscent of something you might see in a horror movie.
@KyWoods I was happy to send him to grasshopper heaven, wherever that might be

We have them here too Jean, but not bad like they were in Utah. A good friend has chickens, and they love to eat them. She finally decided that it was grossing her out when she'd eat an egg, thinking about what the chicken had eaten!

Better not to think about those things when you're eating....you also have Mormon crickets out there -- I will never forget the time we stopped at a rest stop and the ground was black with them!

Ick on the Mormon crickets. Those things are awful. Never saw them as thick as you did though. Just a few too many in the yard, and they do a lot of damage too. I'm glad to be away from them!

I didn't know that crickets were religious creatures...off to Google that one.

@KyWoods Don't know what their real names are but they were quite a sight and that's what we were told they were. Having grown up in the south it was all new to me but the post by @Natalie brought them back to mind. It was many years ago that we saw them, but the impression they left was long-lasting

I never did find out if Mormon crickets were their very own type of cricket, or just a name for the ones that seem to be in Utah. I was going to look into it, but every time I tried, I was slapped in the face by cricket pictures! I'm not a Utah native, and found it very interesting that there were Mormon crickets.

I Googled them, and that's what they're called, because the Mormons found them--also, the wikipedia article said that they're actually not crickets, but katydids! Interesting, huh?