#conocephalus

[onenicebugperday]

this little guy hopped onto my desk while i was on my pc last night. Central Indiana. i haven't seen a grasshopper in ages

This isn't a grasshopper! It's a lesser meadow katydid :)

[phidippus-audax]

Almost everyone at work knows me as the critter catcher because I will not hesitate to relocate a bug that found its way into the store. I can get really cool photos if I'm fast enough!

[Image description 1: a small ground cricket is perched on my fingertips. End ID.]

[Image descriptions 2 and 3: two angles of a Virginian tiger moth, showing the details of the wings and face. End ID.]

[Image descriptions 4 and 5: two angles of a Polyphemus moth, showing the wings open and closed. End ID.]

[Image description 6: a lesser meadow katydid sitting on my hand. End ID.]

[ljsbugblog]

the last post for grasshopper week isn't a grasshopper at all! Here is a beautiful Greenish Meadow Katydid, sporting a much longer pair of wings and antennae than our grasshoppers.

i hope you all enjoyed the grasshopper posts, its been fun having a theme for the week tbh. let me know your thoughts! <3

Greenish Meadow Katydid, adult (Conocephalus upoluensis).

[hidewaku]

摩耶蘭でササキリ···静かな森の朝♪

[onenicebugperday]

@princessfirefly​ submitted: I've got several nice bugs to share!

A giant leopard moth. It was super pretty and about two inches in length!

A species of swallowtail butterfly, I believe. The poor thing was found on the ground with a chipped wing. I'm not sure if it was able to fly but I moved it to some flowers and when I checked later it was gone.

A katydid? It was hard to get a pic of this fellow because he just hopping from plant to plant.

A wasp lady who stopped to clean herself on a flower.

And the cutest snail I've ever found.

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What a beautiful giant leopard!! The butterfly looks like a red spotted purple rather than a swallowtail. Butterflies and moths can take quite a lot of damage to their wings before they’re unable to fly! Although it is pretty battered, so likely near the end of its life anyway. Yes the third friend is definitely a katydid, likely in the genus Conocephalus. The wasp lady is lovely! And so is the snail...look at those tiny eye stalks....precious :’)

[onenicebugperday]

@tadaubs​ submitted: I found this LEGGED unit dangerously close to a bevy of orb weavers but when I passed by later to get more pictures it was gone. North Shore, Oahu, HI.

A very leggy and adorable katydid! Hopefully they just moved on and didn’t get caught by one of the orbweavers! Although if they did that’s just how life be.

[drhoz]

#2668 - Conocephalus bilineatus

One of the Meadow Katydids. Adults feed on grass leaves and seedheads, but the nymphs are often carnivorous. I have no idea why at least three of them were fascinated by this tissue paper.

Aoraki / Mt Cook, Aotearoa New Zealand

[drhoz]

The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Paraparaumu

After Whanganui we had to hurry down to Paraparaumu for the next night, but that didn't stop us doing a rapid U-turn when we spotted a barn-sized secondhand bookstore on the highway at Sanson. Book Barns like the Ministry of Books are one reason we came back with twice the luggage and three times the weight we left Perth with.

Anyway - the name means "scraps from an earth oven", after an 1819–1820 expedition by Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Toa iwi, who were unimpressed by the lack of useful resources.

But the alpaca farm we stayed at had some interesting insects that evening, and we watched some episodes of Monkey! so I had no complaints.

A few species I've covered before.