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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) » Fork-tailed Bush Katydid (Scudderia furcata)
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Scudderia? - Scudderia furcata - female
Copyright © 2011 Yurika Alexander

Scudderia? - Scudderia furcata - Female
Atco, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
October 24, 2011
Size: 35mm?
Not great image... She was cleaning her ovipositor on honeysuckle bush.
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Contributed by Yurika Alexander on 24 October, 2011 - 7:16pm
Last updated 22 January, 2012 - 2:31am

Moved
Moved from Scudder's Bush Katydids.
… David J. Ferguson, 22 January, 2012 - 2:31am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Katydids.
… metrioptera, 18 November, 2011 - 7:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Ah! A first move as an editor
Congratulations!
… john and jane balaban, 18 November, 2011 - 7:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I was really nervous, but felt that it had been identified by an editor, and was a nice image, so I decided to move it. I moved a few other images as well. I'm still feeling pretty cautious with my new privileges!
… metrioptera, 18 November, 2011 - 7:37pm login or register to post comments

Definitely she is Scudderia
probably S. furcata, but perhaps S. fasciata.

She actually migth be laying eggs (hard to tell without actually watching her). Most Scudderia species lay eggs in leaves. They force their ovipositor down between the upper and lower edges of a leaf and insert a very thin flat egg inside. They often use their mouth to help guide the ovipositor and I suspect perhaps also to prepare the edge of the leaf to make it easier to lay in. There is usually a row of a few to several eggs inside the edge of the leaf by the time they move on, but numbers laid and the method used might vary from species to species (and perhaps with the type of leaf?).
… David J. Ferguson, 25 October, 2011 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

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