Katydid at Moruya, NSW
Identification history
| Austrosalomona falcata | 4 Feb 2024 | RogerF | ||
| Unverified | 3 Feb 2024 | LisaH |
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I’ve never really thought about what grasshoppers ate - until tonight. I didn’t realise they were predators, so tonight was a bit of an eye opener, seeing this grasshopper feeding on a moth it must have caught. Honestly, I was a bit grossed out - one day I’ll toughen up and accept ‘that’s nature!’
4 comments
RogerF
wrote:
4 Feb 2024
Actual grasshoppers Acrididae are all herbivores. Half the katydid species Tettigoniidae are predators as are all the Raspy and Forest crickets
LisaH
wrote:
4 Feb 2024
Ah, thank you! Sorry I didn't recognise this as a katydid - really interesting to know. Thank again
LisaH
wrote:
4 Feb 2024
Thank you - I remember you telling me, Roger, and it's been a very useful distinction to help differentiate. However, I was just a bit weirded out by seeing its mandibles moving as it consumed the moth, so didn't concentrate on the species . . .
Location information
- Places Moruya, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- LisaH Recorded by
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Collections
LisaH South Coast NatureMapr Austrosalomona falcata Katydids (Tettigoniidae) Grasshoppers, Crickets & Katydids (Orthoptera) Insects
Additional information
- Moth Associated animal
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
- Alive / healthy Animal health
Species information
- Austrosalomona falcata Scientific name
- Katydid Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 66.16m Recorded at altitude
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