Straight-lanced meadow katydid
The straight-lanced meadow katydid is a green and brown grasshopper-like insect that lives in grassy fields. The female has a long, straight egg-laying tube at her back end, even longer than her body. That straight tube gave the species its name.
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Fun facts
Some have short wings and some have long wings. The long-winged ones are bigger.
Its song is a faint, pulsing purr, so high that many grown-ups cannot hear it.
They are often found in big groups in clumps of short grass.
Males can bend their bodies at very sharp angles.
Most asked questions about Straight-lanced meadow katydid
?What does the straight-lanced meadow katydid eat?
Mostly grasses.
?Can you hear a meadow katydid sing?
Its song is a very high, soft purr, so it can be hard to hear.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Conocephalus strictus
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Conocephalus strictus (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 Gawkinsk1. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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