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Re: Biggest grasshoppers I’ve ever seen
[Re: BibbHunter]
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06/24/18 04:46 AM
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They are there every year. They are black with yellow stripes. Yeah, I've seen them that big before. During this period it is impossible to catch a bass on topwater. We always figured they must be toxic. That is correct. Overall, the natural enemies of lubber grasshoppers are poorly documented. Vertebrate predators such as birds and lizards learn to avoid these insects due to the production of toxic secretions by the adult hoppers, though this is not absolute (Chapman and Joern 1990). Naïve vertebrates often gag, regurgitate, and sometimes die following consumption of lubbers (Yousef and Whitman 1992). However, loggerhead shrikes, Lanius ludovicianus Linnaeus, capture and cache lubbers by impaling them on thorns and the barbs of barbed wire fence. After 1-2 days the toxins degrade and the dead lubbers become edible to the shrikes (Yousef and Whitman 1992) http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/lubber.htmThose shrikes are pretty smart.
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Re: Biggest grasshoppers I’ve ever seen
[Re: ozarktroutbum]
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06/24/18 08:35 AM
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perchjerker
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Years ago I was in the Delta. There was a dead tree standing on a main creek point. It had been a big tree was still over 20' tall. It looked like an ant bed that had been kicked over. There were so many on it they were several deep; crawling over each other. I stayed way clear. Thge black and red ones I have see, were always on the pad fields in Negroid Lake.
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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Re: Biggest grasshoppers I’ve ever seen
[Re: ozarktroutbum]
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06/24/18 08:38 AM
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They are responsible for the death of 500 people per years.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: Biggest grasshoppers I’ve ever seen
[Re: ozarktroutbum]
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06/24/18 08:39 AM
06/24/18 08:39 AM
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perchjerker
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Eating them, or people consuming them?
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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