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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Grasshoppers, Crickets, Katydids (Orthoptera) » Long-horned Orthoptera (Ensifera) » Katydids, Camel Crickets, and relatives (Tettigoniidea) » Katydids (Tettigoniidae) » Phaneropterine Katydids (Phaneropterinae) » Bush Katydids (Scudderia) » Northern Bush Katydid (Scudderia septentrionalis)
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What's goin' on here ? - Scudderia septentrionalis - male
Copyright © 2011 Cathy Wilson

What's goin' on here ? - Scudderia septentrionalis - Male
Loudonville, ashland County, Ohio, USA
August 17, 2011
So I'm photographing some katydid and as I look closely over the top of my glasses I note that it is 'sucking' or 'eating' something that looks . . . like maybe . . . another insect leg? Ewwwww. He's perched on a large budleia, but I don't think that's a plant part that's being munched. Any thoughts? Thanks :)

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What's goin' on here ? - Scudderia septentrionalis - male What's goin' on here ? - Scudderia septentrionalis - male
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Contributed by Cathy Wilson on 20 August, 2011 - 2:32pm
Last updated 22 January, 2012 - 12:52am

Moved
Moved from Scudder's Bush Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 22 January, 2012 - 12:52am login or register to post comments

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… David J. Ferguson, 21 August, 2011 - 7:17pm login or register to post comments

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that's a bush katydid but to know what species i need adio. plus it looks like the katydid shed and is eating it.
… Nathan Lewis, 20 August, 2011 - 7:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Nathan!
I reeeeaaally had NO idea that insects consumed their shed 'selves'. Whoa.
What in interesting world :)
… Cathy Wilson, 20 August, 2011 - 7:24pm login or register to post comments

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