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Slender meadow katydid

Conocephalus fasciatus
Eats: A bit of everythingGrasshoppers and cricketsGardens and meadows6 legs

The slender meadow katydid is a small, thin grasshopper relative, green and brown like the grass it lives in. Its long, narrow wings stick out past the end of its body. It sings a soft song of ticks and buzzes.

Lives in
The United States and southern Canada, in grassy and weedy places
Length
1.8 to 2.6 cm (0.71 to 1 in)
Top speed
about 3.4 km/h (2.1 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a gentle little insect of the meadow.
What does it eat?
It mostly eats grass and grass seeds. Now and then it also eats small insects.
For real!Photo of Slender meadow katydid
Picture by Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Slender meadow katydid about 2.6 cm long (1 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)A crayon about 9 cm (3.5 in)
as long as 4 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 1.1 secondsmoves 36 times its own body length every second

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Fun facts

1

Its song is a row of ticks and buzzes that can last from 1 to 20 seconds.

2

You can find it in pastures, along roadsides and in open pine woods.

3

The female has a straight egg-laying tube at the end of her body. It is about two thirds as long as her back leg's thigh.

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Most asked questions about Slender meadow katydid

?What does a slender meadow katydid eat?

Mostly grass and grass seeds, and sometimes small insects.

?How big is a slender meadow katydid?

About 2 to 2.5 centimetres long.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Conocephalus fasciatus
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Family
Tettigoniidae
Classification
Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
Lives on
North America

Where the facts come from

  1. Conocephalus fasciatus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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