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Spiny Katydid - - (Panacanthus cuspidatus)

Wildlife Note Card Photography by Steven Holt

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Spiny katydids, native to the rainforests of Central and South America, are 2.5 to 3 inches in length. Believed by scientists to be omnivorous, spiny katydids probably eat flower parts, insects and seeds. Male katydids sing by rubbing rough areas of their wings together. Female katydids listen by putting their best foot forward (their ears are located part way down their front legs). Though most tropical katydids sing only sporadically, spiny katydids sing their high pitched whistling song for most of the night. Some tropical bats use their ears to home in on singing insects: scientists speculate that the bats get an inedibly spiny surprise when the insect is a spiny katydid. Observers have seen the spiny katydid successfully defending itself from small monkeys and birds by batting its spiny front legs. The tropical rainforest habitats of the spiny katydids and other insects are being rapidly destroyed; hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of insect species will not be discovered before becoming extinct.
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