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Cool little critter that came in the soil of a plant I got.

onefowl1

onefowl1

About two months ago i got a plant shipped to me from a florida nursery and this little katydid must have been in the soil in egg form or on the plant. it does not eat the leaves of the plant so far but does munch the flowers on it which their are plenty of.
 
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It is a juvinile katydid for sure, it has been on the same plant for over two weeks. So far it has only fed on the flowers of the plant which is a jatropha bonsai of mine i got from florida about two months ago. Since i have seen it it has had two molts, with each molt it is sliming up to a more typical katydid shape. Just google it and you will see they come in a wide variety of looks all with very long and slender back legs and also very long antanea.
 
Is a katydid. Hoppers don't have striped feelers, nor is their head that angular. I have a katydid sitting on my monitor right now, I would know.
 
Well I am afraid one of my plants munched it as next to the plant is a large saucer holding three pitcher plants all of which are big enough to consume a bug bigger then it was. 
 
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onefowl1 said:
Well I am afraid one of my plants munched it as next to the plant is a large saucer holding three pitcher plants all of which are big enough to consume a bug bigger then it was. 
 
 
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That S Purpurea? Why is it red? Mine only grows small green pitchers, and is in a 2.5/2.5/4 deep pot, does it need more room? I put it in more sun(15hour instead of 4-5), and it's growing a new one now, but I can't tell if it's gonna be red or green. Got it with one red though.
 
Edit: I don't expect that. Katydids don't like to drink nectar as much as just eat the flower, so I doubt it would crawl in. that and I have katydid that lives in a nepenthes that it chewed the roof off of, jumping back out whenever it damn pleases.  Doesn't eat the plant itself though, so I couldn't care less.
 
cruzzfish said:
That S Purpurea? Why is it red? Mine only grows small green pitchers, and is in a 2.5/2.5/4 deep pot, does it need more room? I put it in more sun(15hour instead of 4-5), and it's growing a new one now, but I can't tell if it's gonna be red or green. Got it with one red though.
 
Edit: I don't expect that. Katydids don't like to drink nectar as much as just eat the flower, so I doubt it would crawl in. that and I have katydid that lives in a nepenthes that it chewed the roof off of, jumping back out whenever it damn pleases.  Doesn't eat the plant itself though, so I couldn't care less.
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The S purpurea is red in full sun and I also have a green form and one that is more purple on the lip. The other two in the pic here are a purpurea x flava and a S flava.
 
I did not think the katydid crawled in but might have fallen in, I will know more today when I go out into the greenhouse shortly.
 
onefowl1 said:
The S purpurea is red in full sun and I also have a green form and one that is more purple on the lip. The other two in the pic here are a purpurea x flava and a S flava.
 
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Getting a .flava soon as I can. Need to set up a bog pot for it first.
 
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