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Katydid

Microcentrum rhombifolium

Description:

Although the adults of the Common Garden Katydid are always green, the nymphs take on the colour of whatever they have been eating. Nymphs may be bright pink if they have been feeding on red roses, or yellow if they have been feeding on Cassia flowers. The colour may remain for several moults.

Habitat:

The Common Garden Katydid lives in urban areas, forests and woodlands.


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9 Comments

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar a year ago

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ShannaB
ShannaB a year ago

Love your comment, Ashish!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar a year ago

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KMills
KMills a year ago

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martinl
martinl a year ago

Those creepy buggy things will get to you... if you're a nature lover, you'll get drawn in.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar a year ago

Katydids are variable in size and shape across he world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tettigoniid...

KMills
KMills a year ago

thanks heaps... I have learnt something !! I had never heard of a katydid !

martinl
martinl a year ago

A katydid is in the (family=Orthoptera) including crickets (they generally burrow), grasshoppers (they stay in the grass and are diurnal) and katydids (they live in the trees and are nocturnal). If it has long antennae it is probably a katydid.

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar a year ago

Its commonly called Katydid.

4550, Queensland, Australia

Lat: -26.80, Long: 152.95

Spotted on Feb 4, 2012
Submitted on Feb 9, 2012

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