Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1915 — Song of the Katydid. [ARTICLE]

Song of the Katydid.

Katydids belong to the grasshoppef family, and sometimes they have been known to make faint noises in. the daytime, but they are never so loud as those made at night. The queer call Which sounds so very much like the words “Katv did” is made by rubbing the overlapping] wing covers against each other.- This noise has been made with the wings of a dead katydid. A katydid's eggs are flattened, oval and slate colored and are placed in a double overlapping row on twigs and leaves. One katydid will lay as many as 150 eggs in a season. Katydid eggs hatcli out the following spring. In the southern states there are two generations each year. In the northern states there is a single brood.