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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids (Tettigoniidae) » Coneheads and Meadow Katydids (Conocephalinae) » Greater Meadow Katydids (Orchelimum)
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Katydid with powerful looking ovipositor - Orchelimum - female
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Katydid with powerful looking ovipositor - Orchelimum - Female
Kansasville, Bong Recreation Area, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, USA
October 11, 2008
Size: 1.5 in +/-
How do Katydid's oviposit? Do they curl up their abdomen? This ovipositor is so curved, it looks like it would be difficult to insert in stems.

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Katydid with powerful looking ovipositor - Orchelimum - female Katydid with powerful looking ovipositor - Orchelimum - female
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Contributed by Wisconsin Oecanthinancy on 11 October, 2008 - 10:28pm
Last updated 14 January, 2009 - 2:40pm

Moved
Moved from Coneheads and Meadow Katydids.
… Eric R. Eaton, 14 January, 2009 - 2:40pm login or register to post comments

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