This unusual fellow landed on our porch railing, clearly mistaking it for a dump station. Anyone know what it is? I’ve never seen anything like it before or since, and I lived for 36 years in the swampland of South Florida, where this sort of creature is not uncommon.
He hung around for a while, allowing a few photographs, but then flew off, leaving only his calling cards behind.
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It’s a red antennaed boghopper…..
A Curledtail swamp jumper…
Are they filming a new Men in Black in your area?
Very good, Linda! Our fave line from the initial movie, as the alien abducted a tasty morsel young girl to take with him in his space ship: “It’s a long trip, and I’m gonna need a snack”!!!
You have a particularly lovely Katydid there. There are hundreds of species so you need a real bug person to identify it exactly.
Nice picture to remember it by.
What a great photo. Illustrates the wonder of evolutionary engineering.
I second Craig’s ID of a katydid.
katydid
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/true_katydid.htm