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BIG BLACK GRASSHOPPER-(Eastern lubber grasshopper nymph)

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What?
by: Lori

We have huge black and orange ones here in TN.Old timers say they are new to the area.They eat everything!Our cat ate one and we weren't sure she was going to make it.I used canola oil on my Delphians and lillys and they left them alone.Good luck!
Eastern lubber grasshopper nymph
by: Moni

Samarah
Meinflorida has it corredt. It is a lubber grasshopper. They do eat a variety of plants so they might eat your sunflowers.
Here is a thorough article on the critter.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/in132
looks like Lubber Grasshopper
by: Meinflorida

He's really big for a bug, right? I've seen these Lubber Grasshoppers slightly over 3 inches long here in central Florida. They likely are responsible for the large holes in your sunflowers' leaves. We nickname them locusts because a dozen of these large grasshoppers can eat up a large plant like a spider lily in a couple of days. They are, unfortunately, hard to kill, but don't often show up in numbers much beyond a dozen. Hand pick them off your plants and smash hard between 2 bricks if there are only a few and you mind them eating your plants.

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