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Female Katydid, molting Its seen here newly molted with its new skin/skeleton still pink in color and is already starting to eat its old skin.
Spotted on Nov 16, 2013
Submitted on Dec 22, 2013
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Thanks, @bayucca for helpful explanations :)
Should be a female katydid.
Crickets are usually Gryllidae, which were actually "true crickets". Although the term cricket is more or less correct for katydids, I suggest that we use it only for Gryllidae to avoid misunderstandings. Tettigoniidae are called katydids in US and bush crickets in UK. Grasshoppers usually have much shorter antennae. Caelifera are short-horned grasshopper (Acrididae as one of the family), whereas Ensifera are long-horned grasshopper (Tettigoniidae as one of the family). Grasshoppers, katydids and true crickets all belong to Othoptera. Not so easy to explain and many times the given names are not really helpful.