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Tyler Mac Canada cricket

Tyler Mac well uh

There’s a Katydid living in my pot of nasturtiums on my front porch. Just went out to water the potted plants, and it was singing it’s lovely song. Crickets as the backup band. Sat there in the dark enjoying the chorus! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦

There is one that's been hanging around my back porch area for about a week now. The first time I saw it, it was on a screen door. I noticed that it's hind legs were pretty much tied together with a spider web. So I thought I would help and I grabbed a stick. I put the stick on the web carefully, and it crawled pulling itself from it. Then a few seconds later it flew onto my shoulder and sat there for a few moments. Then flew off towards the ground. Since then it's just been hanging out around there. Kinda confused why it keeps staying there. Have been tempted to let it get into my hand and then take it to the nearby forested area so it can actually blend in. To me, I thought maybe they were perhaps related to the mantis.

All I keep hearing is the human blabbermouth and not a peep from the katydid

I was always told growing up that a katiedids wings can cut u open..is this true???..I'm terrified of them

Noisy here in Memphis tonight

Katydids, crickets, and grasshoppers are in the same order called orthoptera.

Epic stuff

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nancys gold ring cut scotts like
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Nice, but this story should have included samples of their sounds.

I associate this with some kind of horrible nightmare

And.. This one... Is... Vary pointy...

I now love katydids

Katydids are always flying into my apartment for some reason. Had one last night and another tonight. I just get them to climb on something long and I fling them back out the window. They're mellow, cool little guys. Well, can't really say 'little'. The one that was in here last night was nearly the length of my entire hand. Big boy.

Video: "Male katydids provide a meal for their mate made of a secretion from their abdominal glands"
Praying mantis: "Hold my beer"

found it in my garden

Awesome video!😃 These insects have incredible camouflage!🤩

Bruh so I been thinking the squirrel outside my house he making this noise. It’s one these leaf looking things

Very cool, I love the sounds they make. When I was little they kind of scared me though. LOL

why do they fly straight at me when im cutting the grass

Great video.

Thanks for sharing .

What did she do?

Crickets are small and black that is confusing

Bats are mammals btw.

My grandfather put one of these on my head when I was a kid without knowing. Ran to look in the mirror because I felt something on my head and I nearly died of a heart attack lol.

Great video thanks! 👍🏽

Saw one of these at school. Guy picked it up, then a 6th grader slapped it and it ascended to another dimension. Few weeks later, it came back for revenge and a girl picked it up and I marveled at it

I love listening to the music of the nighttime insects and animals.

its in my room right now 😅

katitdid fling poop lol

Katydid? No she didn't. Katydid? Katydid what? What did Katydo?

Who did?
Katy did.
Katy did what?

I have one in my house that’s been on my ceiling and now it’s on my dirty crockpot that I was planning on washing tonight. I will be calling a friend to get it out of my house tomorrow. I am deathly terrified.

My cat brought one inside so I had to save it and bring it outside to my potted plant for it to chew on.

one of the leaf-like katydids crawled into my window on the second floor of my house and was stuck there for a week. i couldn’t get it out because i have an air conditioner installed at the moment, but he died a few days ago. (did some research and learned the difference between male and female) it fell off of the window and it on top of my air conditioner right now, just decomposing… really sad because this is the third year in a row one of these has visited me but this is the first time one died in my window. i do not live in a tropical area so this part confuses me… the fact that every year every katydid was missing it’s big leg on the same side. i thought maybe it was the same one coming back for three years but since they usually live one year.. maybe it’s a coincidence. but rip the katydid in my window :( can’t even get him out until my air conditioner is removed.

the colours are much more interesting on the juvenile ones.

Saw on on the lawn chair. Looked just like a leaf

Great video and good information! Thanks for sharing! I got a good chuckle out of it too! 😄

Yay, I didn't know Katydid's were so interesting, thank you for introducing me to these creatures :)

But I'm katy?! 🤯🤯🤯😵😵😵😵

Just saw one in my backyard and thought it was an odd looking grasshopper. Thanks for clearing up my confusion! Such a cool little creature :)

I don't hear as many katydids now which is weird. I live right behind a forest and a swamp. I also haven't heard frogs, crickets, and cicadas

I just found out this insect exists as it flew into my bedroom. It's hopping around while I am wearing a helmet and a jacket to make sure it does not bite me.

Too much talking came here to show my son what a kadydid sounded like the narrowator just keeps going .

Katydids: i look like grasshoppers, sound like cicadas, but I'm secretly a cricket... 🤣😂

Mom: Sarah, Why did u destroy the candy?
Sarah : Ididnt do that!
Mom: Who did it then?
Sarah: .*Katy did*

A whole forest full of them can be deafening.