Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: What kind of grasshopper?, 1 by ncaptiva

ncaptiva wrote:
I just think they're the coolest things (lol)... but I'm on 12 acres of dense property with more than enough plants, so they don't bother me =) PurePlants, someone told me a long time ago that the black ones and the giant lubbers are the same creature, so it's possible I could've been misinformed, but it doesn't seem like it. The raccoons, birds, opossums, spiders (even banana spiders!), fish (bass, brim, tilapia, catfish), etc. will NOT eat either of them (the small black ones or the giant ones), and if they do, they throw up right away (the mammals & birds do). The spiders surprised me the most. I toss crickets & stuff into my banana spiders' webs all the time, and they won't go near the little black ones.

And yes, it's SO true about the tobacco spit. It comes out like molasses, and it will stain everything. They just stare right at you & proceed to assault you salivarily (lol... I love making up words that I think should be words anyway).

Another reason I like them so much is because they seem like the most awesome high school dissection project. It's a giant version of a smaller, common creature... how could it not be a great dissection specimen? lol... I even looked into it, and companies do sell lubbers for science class dissection. I figured there are SO many of them at my property, why not see if there's a way to make a little money?