Mystery 8 Giant Costa Rican Katydid Giant Costa Rican Katydid Giant Costa Rican Katydid I want to thank KYLE for his astonishingly great guess of KATYDID, which gives him the win for Mystery 8 (sorry Ms. Utrecht, really). These Katydids, which really are a knock-out animal, are just so unreal, like mechanical devices- or something...
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Sulphur-Winged Grasshopper, Nymph Wanted to salvage this image, taken through a gob on the lens. Just imagine that I did this on purpose. Thank you! LOL. Anyway, this is a grasshopper of open dune areas as well- this is a late stage nymph of the Sulpher-Winged Grasshopper, Arphia sulphurea. A short-horned grasshopper...
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Clouded Grasshopper Clouded Grasshopper Clouded Grasshopper Clouded Grasshopper This clouded grasshoper, Encontoplophus sordidus, a female, made it through a couple frosts. A common inland barrens grasshopper here- feeding on the grassy areas at the moist slopes of inland dunes. Yesterday temps made it near 75 degrees F in...
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Aggravating Katydid E. nasutus Maui E. nasutus Maui An internet friend of mine in Holualoa, Hawaii, Mary Lovein, sent me a great photo- shown here. Mary and I know each other through her passion for Hawaii’s introduced Jackson’s chameleon (Chamaeleo jacksonii xantholophus)- a lizard. Originally from Kenya, Africa,...
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Sword-Bearing Conehead Katydid Sword-Bearing Conehead Katydid In Mid- August in Upstate NY, I was searching plants for caterpillar larvae- in a small patch of grass that had been allowed to go to seed along a home. Sitting paralell to the ground was the katydid in the attached photo. It took me a bit to catch this quick animal,...
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Pine Tree Cricket, male Pine Tree Cricket This is a great lesson in similarity of species! Another new one for me, yet it was first thought to be something else. The Pine Tree Cricket in these photos, turned out to be the Two Spotted Tree Cricket. The give-away was the long thorax. This is a male Two Spotted Tree Cricket,...
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Slender Meadow Katydid Slender Meadow Katydid The Slender Meadow Katydid began to show up in good numbers along side a pond near my house, in late summer. Other louder katydids got their name from the male’s call at night- a few species sound like they are saying “katydid, katydidn’t.” Which made me...
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