The Katydid, which will be studied in these pages, is in the order orthoptera. The orthoptera have two pairs of wings. Orthoptera include grasshoppers, crickets, roaches, mantids, walking sticks, and many more species. The orthoptera, also have an incomplete metamorphosis, and a mandible like mouth. Entomology has described 640,000 species, yet only 10,000 pupae of these species are known.
Pupae are the young of a species.
As an example, the caddis fly, starts out a worm which carries a shelter on it, rather like a shell. When it has gorged itself on plant matter in the water, it cocoons. When it emerges, it is a hairy antannead fly. Weirdly enough, this strange example is not the exception, but the rule when dealing with insects. Insects are egg laying species.