Katydid

This is one of the links I found. http://bugguide.net/node/view/135671/bgi...
It is neither Wikipedia nor EOL :) I hope its what you were looking for!

Thanks. Where were you able to find that? I couldn't find a page for that species on either wikipedia or Encyclopedia of Life.

Then again, you said he was in the composter... haha

His tail doesn't look long enough. He might have been attacked by a bird or something... Was he walking strangely?

Katydid?