Amazing Insects Vol.2, No.3 : Gigantic grasshopper / female

[taytay3087]

awwwwww its sooooo cute!

[YourFriendlyMe]

where can i buy one?

[JDrockerDUDE]

katydids are slow and lethargic.....

[youtoubakias]

Its a cricket relative insect i think!

[MrJFoxProductions]

@youtoubakias You are more correct than you realize. It is a cricket that belongs to the family tettigoniidae which are commonly known as Katydids. I've personally engrossed myself in exclusive study of insects of the order Orthoptera; I'm at the level where you could put any on of these particular insects in front of me and I can tell you on the spot whether it is a grasshopper or cricket. For me, it's not by commonality... it's by biology. I know the detailed differences between them.

[youtoubakias]

@MrJFoxProductions If i manage to gaught one grass hopper i want to make a video with this on tube,a big one that is.I caught very often some of them and then i release them,i love to wach them closely i am not an expert or anything just hapens to know them by the eye or from small experience that i had with them.Recently i have wached an buterfly cocoon in the wall of a building and today have see the buterfly close to the cocoon of it.The weather its cold so i guess it wont live.

[youtoubakias]

@MrJFoxProductions Are those dangerous? do they bite or anything?

[MrJFoxProductions]

@youtoubakias It all depends on the species, diet and environment. As user 'jongeduard' has so identified, this female 'pseudophyllus hercules' is more unlikely to bite than, lets say, carnivorous Katydids of the sub-family saginae, whom have the more threatening, powerfully made mandibles made for breaching the flesh than plant-life.

*FUN FACT*... Here in North America we have Pseudophyllinae species who produce a chirping sound by which all katydids are named. See 'True Katydid'.

[boltp777]

hey where can i get one?

[pitbula96]

EAT IT

[jongeduard]

Good news!

After a long search on the internet ...

I know what katydid this is!

Its a Pseudophyllus-species.

And, to be more precise: I am almost shure that it's Pseudophyllus hercules. But there are also some other Pseudophyllus-species that are quite simular to P. hercules.

[SteveCarras]

There are many places to get them..on bushes..and stuff.. BTW It is a katykid.

[jongeduard]

Katydids, also called bush-crickets, are considered as long-horned grasshoppers.

[SteveCarras]

Yes, I know, I just tend top get specific with semantics...I tend to think of "locusts..

" as grasshoppers more often...

[jongeduard]

Do you know the species of this katydid? It looks like a Zabalius-species or something, but I am not shure.

[SteveCarras]

Neither am I, I'm much more familiar with the ones here in US,Giant and bush.

[jongeduard]

Ok, al right, thank you.

And I am even not very familair with American species, but with the species living in the North-West of Europe, where I live.

Btw. the common European Englisch word for our Tetigoniidae here is bush-cricket instead of "katydid".

And the Dutch word is totally different: "sabelsprinkhaan". That Dutch part "sabel" refers to the sable-shaped ovipositor of the katydids, "sprinkhaan" means grasshopper.

[jongeduard]

What I told here also implies that we in the Netherlands consider Tettigoniidae as a kind of "grasshoppers", not as "crickets".

[ifyouwantbloodygi]

i want one its great where can you get hem from

[64miguel]

that is cool, i am like the only one that comments on your videos I think, I am your biggest fan! lol

[layflay09]

well 2 tell u da truth h made me beleive that insects aint harless