Handsome meadow katydid
The handsome meadow katydid really is handsome. Its body is green with reddish marks around the head, and it often has blue eyes on a white or yellow face. When its wings are folded, they seem to have a turquoise stripe.
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Fun facts
It is about 2 centimetres long, as long as your fingertip to the first knuckle.
Its song is a row of clicks that ends in a short buzz.
The female has a long, curved tube at the end of her body for laying eggs. It is shaped like a sickle.
In Alabama you can hear it from the middle of July until the middle of November.
In some places it mixes with a close cousin, and their young share features of both.
Most asked questions about Handsome meadow katydid
?What does the handsome meadow katydid eat?
Leaves and the pollen of flowers.
?How big is the handsome meadow katydid?
About 18 to 23 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Orchelimum pulchellum
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Orchelimum pulchellum (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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