Back to the Mystery Cricket
On July 5th I posted a photo of a tiny insect that had appeared on the low metal fence surrounding the Great Lawn the night before. Since we were there to look at stars that night I described it as a "stargazing cricket."
I received two e-mails shortly thereafter suggesting that it was a katydid, not a cricket.
I stuck to my guns. Wrong.
Yesterday, when I checked with Nick Wagerik, our entomology guru, who had in turn checked it out in the great new resource --Field Guide to Grasshoppers, Katydids and Crickets by Capinera, Scott & Walker,
he came up with a good candidate for our critter: the Drumming Katydid.
Number 1, below is a picture of this species from an internet website, [and some additional info from that site] It is followed by#2, the picture Lincoln Karim took at the Great Lawn on 7/4/05. [Don't forget that the "Mystery cricket" photo was taken at night. That would explain the color difference. In reality, away from a flashbulb, it looked quite green.]
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posted by Marie Winn @ 8/03/2005 09:45:00 AM
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