Katydid

Description:

maybe 3 inches, green, looks like a leaf, has ovipositor at rear, antennae are two or three times the length of my body; eats leaves, flowers, stemsand fruits of many plants, are predators and will eat other insects; three stages of development: egg, nymph and adult; egg is laid in the fall on plants or in the soil and I hatch in the spring; adult has wings & can fly; lives about one year from egg to the end of adulthood

Habitat:

urban,

Notes:

most active at night and sing in the evening; get their name from how their song sounds: "Katy did, Katy didn't." They rub their wings together to produce their song sound, which serves as part of their courtship. Their ears tympana (hearing organs) are on their front legs