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Katydid

Microcentrum rhombifolium

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Field Notes

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.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (9)

Thanks Shanna... Its tough for me to give time for Project Noah...!!
Love your comment, Ashish!
Learning is not addiction... what else we involved in is called addiction... This is reality... How much importance we have to give to what in our life... we learn here on Project Noah... Today.. on Project Noah... we learn why there is no Cheetah last in Indian forests.. No Lion in East Asian and European forests...
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Those creepy buggy things will get to you... if you're a nature lover, you'll get drawn in.
Katydids are variable in size and shape across he world http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tettigoniidae
thanks heaps... I have learnt something !! I had never heard of a katydid !
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.
Its commonly called Katydid.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2012

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