Sunday, January 25, 2015

Katydid Nymph

I was out in the garden shooting some pictures of the things that are flowering right now, including pretty blue flowers of the Plumbago out behind the fence.



When I was looking at the photos on my computer later, I realized that I also had a picture of an interesting bug on one of the flowers.



I wasn't sure what the bug was.  I thought it might be a brown cricket, because I've heard them chirping lately.  I put the photo up on the Bug Guide website to see if anyone could identify it, and a short time later the response came back that it was a Katydid nymph, probably Phaneroptera nana.

That sounded reasonable, because we've had Katydids before, mostly hanging out on our roses.

Pictures of the adult katydid at:
http://plantagarden-itllgrowonyou.blogspot.com/2010/09/mystery-bug-identified.html  and

http://plantagarden-itllgrowonyou.blogspot.com/2011/11/return-of-katydid.html


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