majorcatfish
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looks like a fork tail katydid
some kind of hopper?
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I think some variety of katydid for the insect.
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Major, did you notice some people can't stay on topic for even one post?
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guilty as charged 
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canesisters
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??? they don't eat other bugs do they???
Going to see if I can get a pict of one in action.
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There are a lot of different kinds of katydids. Some eat plant matter, some are carnivores. Let me go look something up. Be right back.
Katydid
My Home: I can be found on branches of trees or bushes in North America and other parts of the world. I am most active at night and sing in the evening. There are many species of katydids, commonly found throughout the southern part of the United States.
What I eat: I eat leaves, flowers, the stems,
and fruits of many plants and a few species
of katydids are predators and will eat other insects.
What I look like: I am usually green and range in size by species from 1 to 5 inches. My antennae are two or three times the length of my body.
How I am born: I go through three stages of
development: egg, nymph and adult. My egg is laid
in the fall on plants or in the soil and I hatch in the spring. Once I hatch as a nymph, I look like adults except without wings. I shed my skin (molt) to grow. As an adult I will have developed my wings. My lifespan is about one year from egg to the end of adulthood.
That did not take long but my standards can be kind of low. I even saw one where it said some katydids will attack small lizards.
Katydid
My Home: I can be found on branches of trees or bushes in North America and other parts of the world. I am most active at night and sing in the evening. There are many species of katydids, commonly found throughout the southern part of the United States.
What I eat: I eat leaves, flowers, the stems,
and fruits of many plants and a few species
of katydids are predators and will eat other insects.
What I look like: I am usually green and range in size by species from 1 to 5 inches. My antennae are two or three times the length of my body.
How I am born: I go through three stages of
development: egg, nymph and adult. My egg is laid
in the fall on plants or in the soil and I hatch in the spring. Once I hatch as a nymph, I look like adults except without wings. I shed my skin (molt) to grow. As an adult I will have developed my wings. My lifespan is about one year from egg to the end of adulthood.
That did not take long but my standards can be kind of low. I even saw one where it said some katydids will attack small lizards.
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I didn't know anything ate JB's. Nice.
majorcatfish
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i really like the second post......Pretty Rose of Sharon! No idea on the insect.
yes a bad case of "what were we talking about" the 1st page and who was the instigator of it @thistlebloom of course that 20k message @Nyboy just had to chime in......
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i really like the second post......Pretty Rose of Sharon! No idea on the insect.
yes a bad case of "what were we talking about" the 1st page and who was the instigator of it @thistlebloom of course that 20k message @Nyboy just had to chime in......
We weren't talking about Rose of Sharon??
Anyhow, I just did that to give Nyboy a chance to get more posts in. You're welcome Alex.
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