The upturned proboscis of the female made me stop and ponder for a while, what exactly is this thing?! It wasn't until I looked it up that I found out the female has her egg depositor exposed. Initially I looked at it and saw the body down turned in what looked like a pained pose. I had to look at it and watch it move a bit before I figured it was a normal thing. It full on looked like it was in pain, which it may be, who knows what an insect feels. It sat on the leaf and let me take a bunch of pictures over a couple of minutes.

The yellowing of the squash leaves made it far easier to see the katydid than earlier when the leaves were nice and green. Now she stood out and I saw her right away, especially since I was looking at the plants closely for any harvestable produce. While I am not sure what she is eating or where she is dumping her spawn, my big hope is that she is primarily alone in our local ecosystem. I would prefer to not have a voracious monster living amongst my plants. The same as a wolf watching the sheep analogy.

I grew up with katydids around the area so to have them around the farm is kind of nice for the sound. But like I said I hope this is a solo.

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