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Mexican bush katydid

Scudderia mexicana
Eats: PlantsGrasshoppers and cricketsGardens and meadows6 legs

The Mexican bush katydid is a long, green leaf-eater with slender wings. Katydids are cousins of grasshoppers and crickets, with very long, thin feelers. It hides among leaves, where its colour helps it blend in.

Lives in
North America
Length
3 to 3.8 cm (1.2 to 1.5 in)
Top speed
about 4.1 km/h (2.5 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a gentle leaf-eater.
What does it eat?
It eats leaves, even the leaves of the big-leaf mahogany tree.
For real!Photo of Mexican bush katydid
Picture by siamesepuppy. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Mexican bush katydid about 3.8 cm long (1.5 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)A crayon about 9 cm (3.5 in)A banana about 18 cm (7.1 in)
as long as 6 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 0.9 secondsmoves 30 times its own body length every second

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cool stuff

Fun facts

1

Its babies, called nymphs, have a little horn between their feelers.

2

It grows to 30 to 38 millimetres long, longer than a paperclip.

3

Katydids hear with tiny ears that sit on their front legs.

you asked

Most asked questions about Mexican bush katydid

?What does the Mexican bush katydid eat?

Leaves, including leaves of the big-leaf mahogany tree.

?How big is the Mexican bush katydid?

About 30 to 38 millimetres long.

For bug experts

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

Where the facts come from

  1. Scudderia mexicana (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 siamesepuppy. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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