moraghanrahan

Not yet. I have loads of them where I live and they still creep me
out....


gcarras@ wrote:
> I have, like a lot, a half-apprehsnion, half-curiousity about bigger
> insects. Usually (despite the huge population of insects here in
> Southern California where D'Land, of course, is located) when we think
> of insects at Disneyland we think of fictional but just like anywhere
> else there are a lot of real ones..'
>
> I saw a real large hopper (grey bird grasshopper, most likely, the
> typical "startles-the-bejeebers" one people refer to here..bird
> grashoppers, aka "Schistocerca", or as some wags might tag 'em,
> "Schizocerca"due to their typical spasic flying at their most
> startling, are the ones people refer to usually when they mention
> grasshoppers, invading swarms of destructive ....