The Spiny Devil Katydid isn’t just a quirky creature; it’s also an important part of the rainforest ecosystem, serving as ...

The Dragon-headed katydid is one of many insects that will be featured during the Butterfly Pavilion's Insectival bug bash event this weekend.

The more you learn about insects, the more interesting they become, it seems. I mean, you can look at a lowly roly-poly and just think, “Look, there’s a roly-poly.” But once you learn of ...

Crickets, grasshoppers and katydids are all part of the order Orthoptera. That means an ability to chew. And chew they do. Katydids are one of 6,000 predominantly nocturnal insects related to this ...

In Panama, Martinson or another member of the katydid team hike into the forest twice each nighttime — at 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. — to collect katydids. Even when they are inches from the insects ...

Critters Welcome to Hot Katydid Summer Texas is experiencing a population outbreak of the noisy, tree-dwelling insects. With mating season in full swing, you might want to invest in earplugs.

Oliver M. Beckers, Parasitism of the katydid Neoconocephalus triops (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) by the tachinid flies Ormia lineifrons and Neomintho sp. (Diptera: Tachinidae), The Florida Entomologist ...

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As I grew up, I realized that the sounds, especially the ONE, were katydids. There are 255 species in North America, and 20 in our Midwest. These insects get their name from the song they sing.