You’ve found a cache inspired by one of Florida’s coolest (and biggest!) bugs — the Florida lubber grasshopper! These jumbo jumpers can grow up to 4 inches long – that’s as big as your hand!
Also called giant lubbers or Eastern lubber grasshoppers, they’re super colorful with yellow, orange, and black markings. But don’t be fooled — they can’t fly and are terrible jumpers. Their defense? They hiss and spit yucky foam to scare predators away. Ew!
Fun fact: Some animals won’t eat them because they taste really gross. Lucky for the lubber!
Check out all of our caches and Adventure Labs in the area!
TeamXplorist geocache hides
Let's go on this Adventure: Do U Spy The Flagler County Turtle Trail?
Let's go on this Adventure: Do U Spy Saint Augustine’s Murals?
Our favorite Geocaching Content:
- The Geocaching Vlogger
- The Aussie Geocacher
- Hullsome
- 10000 Geocaches
- GeoTrek
- Treasures of our Town Podcast