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RE: lubber grasshoppers

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Posted by: jburokas at Sun Jun 2 08:45:14 2013  [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jburokas ]  
   

I do live here in Florida and I have had lizards attempt to eat "lubbers". They chew on them and spit them out because they produce a foul-tasting 'toxin' of some type. That's the only way a giant meaty snack that can barely move nor has any other defenses could make a living. Birds know and lizards learn that they taste like $hit. I've never seen any animal actually follow through and consume one of those Jurassic grasshoppers. Too bad too, they're enormous and easy to collect.


   

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