### animal | arthropod | insect | grasshopper:

Differential grasshopper
* are well adapted to feeding on cultivated crops and are also good fliers
  - yellow in appearance and have a fishbone pattern on their hind femurs
* common corn pest.

### animal | arthropod | insect | grasshopper:

Katydid
* Most katydids are generally green, but brown, white, and even pink varieties have been found
  - green and have long wings
  - omnivorous, feeding on vegetation, seeds, carrion and occasional prey
  - consume fruit
  - do have wings
* Most katydids eat flowers
  - leaves
  - fold wings
* Most katydids have sharp spikes
* Most katydids inhabit areas
  - countries
* Most katydids live in arid climates
* Some katydids have cones
* Some katydids look like dead leaves
  - use strategies
* also have good hearing
  - make noise while sitting in trees, but at night
* are a primary food source in the rain forest
  - an important part of the Amazonian rainforest community
* are common in the E United States and are also found in the tropics
  - eastern United States and are also found in the tropics
  - generally herbivores , feeding on leaves, flowers, bark, seeds, and fruit
  - green and occasionally pink and can grow up to five inches in length
  - insects that are closely related to crickets and grasshoppers
  - known for feeding on garden leaves and fruit
  - medium-sized to large insects
  - native to the United States from the East Coast to Nebraska
  - related to crickets and grasshoppers, with large back legs for jumping
  - relatives of grasshoppers and crickets
  - tree-living insects that are most commonly heard at night during summer and early fall
  - usually green and are well camouflaged on the plant
  - widespread, occurring in every region of the world with the exception of Antarctica
* can fly for short distances, but they prefer to walk and climb
  - grow to over two inches long and sometimes resemble leaves
  - see fairly well, but have poor night vision
* die after mating and laying eggs, their purpose fulfilled.
  - the leaves of many trees and shrubs
* feed chiefly on plant matter, though some species are predatory, feeding on other insects.
* feed on leaves, stems, flowers, fruit and a variety of plant seeds
  - pollen and nectar, vegetation, insects and invertebrates
  - the foliage of citrus trees during the mid to late morning
* have a lifespan of about a year or less
  - camouflage to look like leaves
  - no other direct effects on humans
* hear each other with ears on their front legs.
* includes air sacs
  - brains
  - carapaces
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - faces
  - flight feathers
  - heads
  - nuclei
  - plasma membranes
  - quill feathers
  - sections
  - shells
  - skulls
  - thoraxes
  - vacuoles
* listen with twice as many eardrums as humans, located out on the front legs.
* live everywhere.
* look similar to grasshoppers, but their bodies are shorter and antennae longer.
* make sound.
* mate during the late summer months and sometimes into early fall.
* play a very important role in nature's web of life.
* resemble a leaf and easily hide within the upper crown of a hardwood tree.
* spend three to four months as nymphs.

### animal | arthropod | insect | grasshopper | katydid:

Female katydid
* Most female katydids make sound.
* mate in the summer, and lay eggs in sticks or in the ground.

Male katydid
* Some male katydids make noise.
* can control the loudness of their music
  - even control the loudness of their music
* have a diverse range of frequencies while females are usually mute.
* make noise by rubbing their wings together to attract a mate.
* rub their wings together to make sounds and call to females.