Here's more than you ever wanted to know about lubbers from UF:
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/crea... Feel free to just look at the pictures, if you want.
I hate killing things, too, but lubber grasshoppers and Cuban Tree Frogs are "kill on sight" in my world. Lubbers will eat anything and are terribly destructive. I've caught them eating my bromeliads before! What in the world would want to eat a bromeliad? That's got to be like chewing shoe leather with spikes! So far I haven't seen any this year and I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Some years are worse than others.
