Katydid

Katydids, or bush crickets, are large crickets in the family Tettigoniidae. There are more than 6,000 species within the family and these are often large insects. They have long antennae which distinguishes them from the closely related grasshoppers even though they are sometimes called Long-horned grasshoppers.

Bush crickets commonly eat plants and seeds but some species are carnivorous and will eat other animals.

A photograph of a Katydid (Typophyllum erosum) from Peru.
Photograph by Roadnottaken licensed under Creative Commons.

Other names for (or types of) Katydid include:

• Bush cricket
• Long-horned grasshoppers
• Tettigoniidae

Related terms

• Orthoptera
• Weta

Related pages on this web site

• Grasshoppers and Crickets - Order Orthoptera

See other words beginning with K