I am known as an Easter Lubber grasshopper
I'm large and clumsy and slow
I damage citrus and vegetable crops
I'm pretty - that's as far as my good qualities go.
Sources: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/orn/lubber.htm
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