Bet no one has one of these!

Angel Chicken · 07-27-2009, 03:07 PM

Meet Fred, my Eastern Giant Lubber's Grasshopper.

Found him chilling outside on a plant in my hotel room (on a recent vacation to Florida), bought a critter keeper and took him home to NC with me.

Dakota Spirit · 07-27-2009, 03:12 PM

He's beautiful, I love those wings

Curbside Prophet · 07-27-2009, 04:03 PM

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He's beautiful, I love those wings

How do you know SHE's not beautiful!?

Dakota Spirit · 07-27-2009, 04:14 PM

Lol, because his name is Fred!
Now...how Angel knows, that's the question

I'm assuming there's some way to tell based on color, size, wings, or something.

Angel Chicken · 07-27-2009, 04:29 PM

The only way to REALLY tell is the size, and considering the size of this one I'd say that Fred is in fact, a female.

I don't care though, I like the name Fred

Dakota Spirit · 07-27-2009, 04:48 PM

Lol aw man, that means Curb was right then. No one enjoys when that happens

Considering the names some people give their pets, I think a female Fred is just fine

Teachadog · 08-03-2009, 08:59 AM

lol I used to know a girl in school by the name of fred :-P well her name was Elizabeth and she was the third Elizabeth C, and there was about 4 other elizabeth's in the class (A liz, beth, lizzy, so she went by Fred!)

tw1n · 08-05-2009, 08:48 AM

I actually have a million of them... 'cause I live in florida. And they are annoyingly everywhere.

I'm going to start exporting "exotic florida pets"

I saw a green anole for sale in a mall in Mass for 5 bucks.

Those things are all over my yard.

digits mama · 08-05-2009, 02:12 PM

We get those here too! The Grasshoppers come out in droves during late summer here and they crawl all over everything! And the Anoles, Love them..they come out and watch us.
Heres one of my leettle freinds..Notice he is the same color as the stain on the fence? Love it. Trying to hide.

FilleBelle · 08-05-2009, 02:59 PM

I think I had a nightmare featuring that grasshopper...

tw1n · 08-05-2009, 03:53 PM

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We get those here too! The Grasshoppers come out in droves during late summer here and they crawl all over everything!

For real. They are up there with love bugs on the annoying scale.

Angel Chicken · 08-05-2009, 05:14 PM

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We get those here too! The Grasshoppers come out in droves during late summer here and they crawl all over everything! And the Anoles, Love them..they come out and watch us.
Heres one of my leettle freinds..Notice he is the same color as the stain on the fence? Love it. Trying to hide.

Man, the anoles were EVERYWHERE! All I saw were teeny teeny ones, or I woulda caught one and brought it home too LOL

tw1n · 08-06-2009, 07:39 AM

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Man, the anoles were EVERYWHERE! All I saw were teeny teeny ones, or I woulda caught one and brought it home too LOL

We'll have to set you up a package...

throw in one of these guys tooo..

GottaLuvMutts · 08-06-2009, 11:14 AM

We had those all over our outside plants when I lived in FL. Their babies are so cute, but my mom always squished them on the driveway because they ate her lily plant. Actually, the lily they liked was endangered and looked something like the one in your pic.

Uggh, squished lubber grasshopper on a hot sidewalk - another reason to hate FL. I moved away 6 years ago and won't be moving back.

BoxMeIn21 · 08-06-2009, 11:25 AM

I've never seen one of those...Fred's gorgeous!

Foyerhawk · 08-06-2009, 11:29 AM

He is cute! We have them in our yard. We don't get green Anoles in St Pete/Pinellas county, but a bit North, like Crystal River and so forth, I used to catch them all the time.

We do have regular brown fence lizards, though, in abundance. I bet I could go outside right now and catch one.

tw1n · 08-06-2009, 11:46 AM

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He is cute! We have them in our yard. We don't get green Anoles in St Pete/Pinellas county, but a bit North, like Crystal River and so forth, I used to catch them all the time.

We do have regular brown fence lizards, though, in abundance. I bet I could go outside right now and catch one.

Just 1? lol

GottaLuvMutts · 08-06-2009, 11:45 PM

A cat I had growing up that was afraid of her own shadow used to torment the anoles on the patio. One day, an extremely brave one decided he'd had enough. All of the sudden, he lunged at the cat with his mouth open, not unlike the velociraptors in JP. Anyway, it worked and the cat actually backed off! I was watching all of this through a window and ROTFL. 3oz. lizard vs. 10lb. fraidy cat.

Ah, South Florida. I believe it was Dave Barry who joked that you could put a toaster on your lawn and it would grow legs and walk away.

.308 · 08-08-2009, 07:48 AM

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Found him chilling outside on a plant in my hotel room (on a recent vacation to Florida), bought a critter keeper and took him home to NC with me.

General rule of thumb is that wildlife should not be transported for "pets".

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I'm going to start exporting "exotic florida pets"

And I hear the python might become Florida's state snake. I never saw pythons on "wild kigdom" in Florida

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another reason to hate FL.

For myself, it was the running joke that space mountain was the second highest point in Florida.

GottaLuvMutts · 08-08-2009, 05:59 PM

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For myself, it was the running joke that space mountain was the second highest point in Florida.

Yeah, right after the trash dump. Not kidding here, folks, Miami's highest point is Mount Trashmore. Ew.