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Photo#532354
My best guess is juvenile katydid - male

My best guess is juvenile katydid - Male
Crystal Lake, McHenry County, Illinois, USA
June 19, 2011
Size: Grain of rice - uncooked
This thing was so tiny that it required 30 photos to get a couple of sharp images (a millimeter of movement from a breeze was enough to knock it out focus). And I did not Photoshop in the googly eyes, they're real.

baby Meadow Katydid
species harder to determine, but we may eventually nail it down.

Moved from Katydids.

Moved
Moved from ID Request.

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