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I have photos of the lubber but not the full size, only the upper part of one because I was using a macro lens at the time.



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QuoteOriginally posted by photolady95 Quote
I have photos of the lubber but not the full size, only the upper part of one because I was using a macro lens at the time.
So you can confirm that they are quite large, bigger than most of our northern Orthoptera. I think that the local "locust" is almost as long, but that is mostly wing. Their bodies are much smaller and more slender than that of a lubber.

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Here's one of those strangely shaped little assassin bugs from my wildflower garden
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Yes, lubber are extremely large. I'd say at least 3 inches long. I know I had other photos of them but can't find them at the moment. Some where buried in my SIC folders on flickr. I also have photos of their pre lubbers, the black and orange ones, I'm not sure what they're called, I think someone told me they were Lubber nymphs.



As for those different assassin bugs, that one you have looks like a nymph of one kind.

This one was on the Wisteria bush:
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A comma and a peacock - not been many good butterfly spotting days this year





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Nice looking Butterflies Mohammed. TFS

I still see them flitting by my window but as said before they never land. I plant Zinnia's right outside my window just so I can photograph them and they aren't being nice to me this year. Even the river parks don't have many this year.
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QuoteOriginally posted by mohb Quote
A comma and a peacock
That peacock is a a handsome butterfly.

Three images below of common white butterflies in Idaho, family Pieridae, but I'm not sure of the genus (Pontia?) much less the species. There's also a monarch enjoying the purple loose strife in the third image.

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This thing was suspended by a gossamer filament near my house. I really needed a longer lens (I was using the DFA 100/2.8 Macro) and there was slight breeze so focusing was a challenge.

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Band-eyed drone fly i gather is its name. Never seen one before
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Band-eyed drone fly i gather is its name. Never seen one before
Nor eye, I mean "I." That is a really interesting fly.
Another hopper, this one from MessyChewBits while the one I posted previously was in Idle-hoe. They look similar, but they are surely distinct species if not genera.
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QuoteOriginally posted by WPRESTO Quote
Perhaps someone will post an image of a big "lubber grasshopper" found in the southeast.
Yes, the buggers are HUGE! Saw some in Mexico a few years ago...

These have likely been posted before, but without a macro lens, you get this profile:




With a macro, you get something that looks like a movie poster for a B-series horror flick entitled Revenge Of The Grasshoppers...


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Love the fine texture in the plates on the face.Reminds me of skeletal scutes on alligators.
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