Roads End Naturalist

Exploring the natural world as we wander at the end of the road

Tag: katydid

  • Shedding Light on the Subject

    The insect world is nature`s most astonishing phenomenon. Nothing is impossible to it; the most improbable things occur there. ~Rachel Carson Last week we were looking for caterpillars for this past weekends’ BugFest event, and ended up making a couple of nocturnal excursions (it is often easier to see cryptic caterpillars at night by the Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn

  • KatyDid, But Wishes She Hadn’t

    It provides strength to the armor plate of the beetle, keenness to the lancet of the mosquito, endurance to the rasping fiddle and bow of the cricket and the katydid. ~Edwin Way Teale, on the properties of chitin Late summer and early fall are a time of abundance of many types of invertebrates in our Read more…

    Written by

    Mike Dunn