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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids (Tettigoniidae) » False Katydids (Phaneropterinae) » Round-headed Katydids (Amblycorypha)
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Pink Grasshopper - Amblycorypha
Copyright © 2007 samanthaC

Pink Grasshopper - Amblycorypha
Luling, LA, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, USA
May 14, 2007
Size: small
Has anyone seen anything like this before? Let me know!
Thanks
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Contributed by samanthaC on 18 May, 2007 - 4:10pm
Last updated 27 May, 2007 - 7:14pm

I found one of these too!
In 2002, I my kids found a rare pink katydid like yours! (We live in Berrien County, Michigan, close to Lake Michigan.) We photographed it and then let it go! It was a female. Two years later, in the same garden, we found another, a light one, which was small like yours. We kept it and it went through its morphing stage. The beauty that emerged was really wonderful! We let her go too, much to the dismay of experts! Since it is two years later again... who knows? We'll be on the lookout.
Dr. Tom Walker in Florida was helpful. University of Michigan has some good information and Lang Elliot an entymologist/photographer was helpful as well! They all said that this is rare but not unheard of. There are also yellow varieties.
… Mari Maloney Watkins, 13 June, 2007 - 6:56am login or register to post comments

Thats a Pink Katydid
Thats a Pink Katydid. It is normally found green. Here is another pink one some one else found:
… GypsumWolf, 18 May, 2007 - 4:11pm login or register to post comments

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