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Lesson’s Snout-nosed Katydid – Pseudorhynchus lessonii
July 23rd, 2011 | 
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The sound produced by this grass-seed-munching katydid can be clearly heard for hundreds of metres. As it is approached, the volume intensifies to an almost unendurable extent. It was in such circumstances, a couple of nights ago, seeking to identify the enunciator of such a cacophany, sitting aloft the upper fronds of a ferny thicket on the edge of a rainforest clearing.
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Predatory Katydids
Gram for gram, there’s probably not much separating the Raspy Cricket (above) from its Cicada prey. Both dropped to the ground at the feet of a small group of nightwalkers last evening, amidst the desperate, resonating alarm-calls of the victim.
Rainforest Katydids
Katydids grow incrementally, from the exoskeletal confines of one instar to the next. They emerge from a hanging position on warm, still, humid nights and rely on a very limited variation of climatic tolerances. Read the rest of this entry »
Wait-a-while Cricket
Introducing the Spiny-legged Rainforest Katydid (Phricta spinosa), known colloquially as the wait-a-while cricket. It is a cryptic rainforest species with a lichen-like camouflaged colour-pattern. It can grow to about 100 mm in body length.