Greater angle-wing katydid
The greater angle-wing katydid is a big green insect that looks just like a leaf. Its body has a diamond shape, and its feelers are long and thin like threads. It hides in trees and bushes, where it is very hard to spot.
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Fun facts
Grown-ups are busy in late summer and autumn, and you can hear their ticking call.
It is quite big, about 5 to 6,5 centimetres long, as long as your finger.
It has a twin, a very similar katydid. You can only tell them apart by a tiny bump on the back of its neck.
Most asked questions about Greater angle-wing katydid
?Is a katydid a grasshopper?
It is a close relative. Katydids have much longer, thread-like feelers than grasshoppers.
?What sound does the greater angle-wing katydid make?
It makes a ticking call, mostly in late summer and autumn.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Microcentrum rhombifolium
- Group
- Grasshoppers and crickets
- Family
- Tettigoniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Orthoptera > Tettigoniidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Broad-winged katydid, Angular-winged katydid
Where the facts come from
- Microcentrum rhombifolium (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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