beeper
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New friend in the rose garden...
New friend
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Carol Dee
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A katydid ? Cool insect 
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beeper
Deeply Rooted
I have only seen them in pictures, first time to see a real one, I love it.A katydid ? Cool insect
baymule
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You ought to post that for picture of the week!
Beekissed
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My cats love to eat them. Can't believe this is your first! Pretty, aren't they? I agree with Bay...should enter that as the POW.
digitS'
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ninnymary
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I've never seen one up here.
Mary
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thistlebloom
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I met my first Katydid when I was in second grade. It was in one of our fruit trees.
Actually there were more than one, so I pounded holes in a jar lid with a nail and captured them for observation. I was horrified the next day that there was only one left in the jar. They are apparently like Mantids and will eat whatever they can catch. This was in southern CA.
Actually there were more than one, so I pounded holes in a jar lid with a nail and captured them for observation. I was horrified the next day that there was only one left in the jar. They are apparently like Mantids and will eat whatever they can catch. This was in southern CA.
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From Wikipedia
Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called bush crickets[2] (in the British Isles), katydids (in the USA), or long-horned grasshoppers (obsolete). More than 6,400 species are known.
They are supposedly on all continents except Antarctica. Some only eat vegetation some are hunters and predators. Again a common name might describe different critters to different people. Growing up in the Tennessee Appalachian ridges I occasionally saw some but not that many.
Insects in the family Tettigoniidae are commonly called bush crickets[2] (in the British Isles), katydids (in the USA), or long-horned grasshoppers (obsolete). More than 6,400 species are known.
They are supposedly on all continents except Antarctica. Some only eat vegetation some are hunters and predators. Again a common name might describe different critters to different people. Growing up in the Tennessee Appalachian ridges I occasionally saw some but not that many.
