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Katydid..barely hanging on to the petals of a Morning glory on a windy day in California.
The family Tettigoniidae, known in American English as katydids and in British English as bush-crickets, contains more than 6,400 species. They are also known as long-horned grasshoppers, although they are more closely related to crickets than to grasshoppers.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Ensifera
Infraorder: Tettigoniidea
Superfamily: Tettigonioidea
Krauss, 1902
Family: Tettigoniidae
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Oh, FABULOUS! Gorgeous and so fascinating!
A beautiful, excellent photograph
Fabulous work Gena!
Super picture, Gena! Did you have to use super glue?
WOW very nice! the color of that Katydid is so iridescent! Rude question perhaps but did you use any kind of post processing. If you did it’s brilliant! If not it’s even more brilliant!!
Fantastic Capture Gena, love the colours!
a stunning capture,wonderful,dawnx
I love Katydids Gena and its so beautiful on the bloom! Great colors and fabulous shot!
Excellent closeup with wonderful light and detail, Gena!
Awesome!!