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Arthropod. Unlike grasshoppers and crickets, both male and female katydids make sounds by rubbing their forewings (front wings) together to “sing” to each other. Katydids hear each other with ears on their front legs. They just have to move their front legs to hear in any direction! Katydids spend most of their time at the tops of trees where most of the leaves are, and they can jump up to 20 times their body length! |
| Scientific
Name |
Lifespan |
| Elimaea punctifera |
1 year |
| Diet |
| Herbivore. Avocado (young leaves), citrus, coffee, cotton, garden beans, macadamia and mango; ornamentals such as canna, anthurium, azalea, and hibiscus. |
| Predators and Threats |
| Birds, bats, spiders, frogs, snakes, and other insect-eaters. |
| Habitat |
| Primarily tropical rain forests but they also live in cool, dry temporate forests. Found on every continent except Antarctica. |
