Coming home from the Coles County Fair Queen Pageant, watching our own Jami Currie compete, my wife Danelle found huge green bug on our car. Our 8-year old has been very interested in bugs lately and got a bug kit for her birthday.
So my wife took an empty pop cup and captured this thing. Yikes!
Yahooligans! Animals: Fork-tailed Bush Katydid: "Fork-tailed Bush Katydid
Scudderia furcata
The leaf-like wings of these katydids give them excellent camouflage among the leaves where they live. This disguise means that they probably taste great, so they have to hide from predators like birds and lizards. Male katydids call to attract females; they do most of their singing at night. The eardrums of katydids are located on the elbows of their front legs."
No comments:
Post a Comment