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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) » True Katydids (Pseudophyllinae) » Western True Katydids (Paracyrtophyllus) » Red Katydid (Paracyrtophyllus robustus)
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Eating my plants!! - Paracyrtophyllus robustus
Copyright © 2012 Shea Haynes

Eating my plants!! - Paracyrtophyllus robustus
San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA
April 8, 2012
Size: Body is 0.5 - 1 in
After searching for a couple of hours, I have decided that the internet doesn't know what this bug is. Or, I'm not search-savvy enough to find it! These sneaky bugs are big jumpers, and recently began eating holes in the leaves of all of my beautiful spring plants. They're all neon green, I see no wings, and they have extremely long antennae.

Anyone know what these things are? Any identification help you can provide would be GREATLY appreciated... especially if you happen to know of organic ways to deter their plant-munching :)
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Contributed by Shea Haynes on 8 April, 2012 - 3:19pm
Last updated 30 May, 2018 - 9:08am

Moved
Moved from Common True Katydid.
… Mike Quinn, 30 May, 2018 - 9:08am login or register to post comments

Katydids in TX Hill country
They are katydids and they are eating everything on my 5 acres. I just read that products with spinosaid (supposedly fairly safe) will kill them. Off I go to the nursery. I believe they stripped a couple of the top branches on my plum tree. YIKES !!!!!
… pestkiller, 1 May, 2012 - 10:51am login or register to post comments

I may be mistaken, but I think it is actually
a "Common True Katydid", which is related. If you keep watching them as they get older, whe can be certain. The two species are closely related, but the Common True Katydid usually lives up in the trees. If I decide I goofed later, I may move it over to the other species. I suspect that as they get older they will either scatter, or move up. And yes, probably most of them will get eaten by other critters. Unless there are really a lot of them, Katydids usually do little real damage, just a few scattered holes in leaves hear and there.

Moved from ID Request.
… David J. Ferguson, 14 April, 2012 - 3:27pm login or register to post comments

i have found
over the course of the growing season many are taken by predators..so encourage your spiders and lizzards birds etc.
… Edna Woodward, 8 April, 2012 - 3:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Katydids
Oh yes, I truly love my lizards.
… pestkiller, 1 May, 2012 - 10:52am login or register to post comments

Some sort of katydid nymph
Looks close to
… metrioptera, 8 April, 2012 - 3:36pm login or register to post comments

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