Definitionn. large green long-horned grasshopper of North America
Last update: August 4, 2015
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The Locustidae (see Grasshopper, Katydid) have the feelers and often also the ovipositor very elongate; the foot is four-segmented; the ears are placed at the base of the foreshin and the stridulation is due to the friction of a transverse " file " beneath the base of the left forewing over a sharp ridge on the upper aspect of the right. [Please select]
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The call consists of a series of short, high notes, somewhat reminiscent of a katydid's song. [Please select]
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Katydid carries its musical instrument at the base of its wing cover. [Please select]
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They couldn't find the katydid in any place, and they had looked everywhere. [Please select]
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The children trooped into the cabin after him, crowding to look at the katydid. [Please select]
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Woe to the katydid if it were anything but this bright green. [Please select]
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It is known as the Katydid, on account of its peculiar notes, which resemble the words _Katy-did-she-did_. [Please select]
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[Illustration] No, the little lady katydid cannot sing--only the little male, and he keeps it up all night long. [Please select]
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Once another man saw a row of katydid eggs laid as neatly as could be on the edge of a clean linen collar. [Please select]
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Above the katydid's strident cry and the piper's incessant notes, a wild tremulous whinny shivers through the gloom at intervals, now from a distant field or wood, now from the near orchard. [Please select]
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