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I think this is an immature katydid. He didn't appear to have any wings and was the size of a tee-niny spider.
I found this katydid on the hydrangea by the front porch. I took several photos and could see in each one how the tiny black pupil in its eye followed me whereever I moved. Neato!
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Katydid on a Wild Onion Thank you so much for your many kind comments over the past few months. I love looking at other daily photos and wish I had more time to comment and encourage too, but my day's quite busy, beginning at 5:45 a.m. and ending after 11:00 p.m. There are a lot of talented photographers out there and I try to visit as often as possible, but sometimes it takes weeks. Thanks for being patient.
With the time change, I'm finding it difficult to get home before the sun sets, so I've had to find something to photograph on the way in to work. Today I stopped by the fall meadow, figuring I'd shoot some dead flowers or weeds, but found this grasshopper waiting for the sun to dry the dew off his body.
Again my choice came down to grasshoppers or butterflies. I settled on the pink-headed grasshopper. Watching all the grasshoppers today, I was reminded of growing up as a child in Texas. My dad would want to go fishing and would send us out to collect grasshoppers for bait. We would gather up enough to fill a small Parkay tub--after being distracted by our own pursuit of horny toads--and then Dad would take us to the Concho River for fishing. We were never very patient--we would talk, giggle, throw rocks, and ask a million times if he was finished and if we could go home. He would quietly try to do some fishing, but would eventually relent and take us home. I wonder now if he ever slipped off to fish alone.
The cat found some katydids in the backyard. I was too late for one, but managed to save the other. Even after I rescued him, he seemed very cross.
I think this is an immature katydid. He didn't appear to have any wings and was the size of a tee-niny spider.
I think this is an immature katydid. He didn't appear to have any wings and was the size of a tee-niny spider.
I think this is an immature katydid. He didn't appear to have any wings and was the size of a tee-niny spider.
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