Moved from Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets.

A week ago, one of my work colleagues brought in a bunch of DVD movies to share with me. One was THE REAPING. "Wait a minute," I exclaimed, when looking over the blurb on the case, "is this the one about the biblical plagues down in some Southern state? And there's a real bad CGI locust swarm in it?" My colleague, who knows all about my love for cheap and ridiculous movie monsters of all varieties, assured me that there were locusts all right, but wasn't sure about how the effects were done. "There was a girl with a black grasshopper on her hand," he said. "I think it was real." "That sounds like a horse lubber," I replied at once. "They'd be big enough to show up real well on screen."

I settled in to watch the movie later on. The locust scene came up and sure enough--the generic e-vil demon child showed up holding a big black e-vil grasshopper. Which was indeed a horse lubber, a female. Which can't fly.

Luckily, the Locust Queen's minions were mostly comprised of the Hollywooden makeitupus species and put on a far better display of aerial acrobatics and chewing on people's faces than any 'swarm' of genuine lubbers could have ever managed.

that is a horse lubber grasshopper