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If you throw up a light and a sheet in a field, you're gonna get Orthopterans. This was one of the more interesting ones that I saw last weekend. Somehow, still just yet another Melanoplus sp.
(Thx to @eumorpha-dream for throwing up the light and the sheet)
Found this very-obviously-female round-headed katydid (Amblycorypha sp.) on some blackberry in my yard last July. Check out that ovipositor!
A very handsome Handsome Trig (Phyllopalpus pulchellus).
These guys are quite zippy, not sure how I got this one to stay still long enough to be in focus :-).
Katydid boi is the biggest boi at the light!
Midnight snack!
(tagged for trypophobia tw sorry y'alI had no idea :-( )
This wee katydid nymph (Scudderia sp.) perched on a dead stem is so freaking adorable!! <3 <3 <3
Grasshopper on black-eyed Susan. From August 2006! Bet half of you weren’t even born yet LOL
Current mood.
Sorry for the dearth of posts lately, but my brand new laptop broke and when Dell “fixed” it they actually sent it back still broken but in even worse ways. So I am missing most of my photos and all of my image processing software and just generally cranky about it. Also pandemic/politics/end of summer...:-(
Anyway, here is a cool round-tipped conehead katydid, Neoconocephalus retusus, that I found on my porch stoop the other night. A new species for the yard list!
By far the teeniest katydid nymph I’ve ever seen! Body size no more than 1cm long. (bush katydid, Scudderia sp.)
Dude. Get off the net!
OH HAI!
Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (Scudderia furcata) on a milkweed leaf. From September 2017.
I love the pink markings on this plump Greater Angle-wing katydid nymph (Microcentrum rhombifolium). Thanks to Brandon Woo for the id.
More November BotD finds, like this tree cricket (a snowy, I think, Oecanthus fultoni) sitting on the porch screen in broad daylight...
Went mothing last night so of course the highlight was not a moth but a MOLE CRICKET! How cool is this thing??? Look at those claws, those are digging claws! This was one of three that showed up at the moth light.
LEGGO MAH LEGGO!!!
(two-lined grasshopper, Melanoplus bivittatus; thanks to Matt Pelikan for the id!)
