The Audubon Insectarium in New Orleans just bred these rare pink
katydids and I find them captivating/delicious. Pink Katydid
Facts: • The parental katydids, both pink, were brought to
Audubon Insectarium during the summer of 2008 as donations by
visitors. • The pink katydids were sent off to Cokie Bauder,
Manager of Animal Collections at the Insectarium’s Insect
Rearing Facility, for supervision and care. • The pink katydids
are oblong-winged katydids, Amblycorypha oblongifolia. • This
unusual katydid coloration was first written about in a
scientific article in • The first and only available scientific
research paper on the genetics of this coloration and captive
breeding was conducted by Dr. Joseph Hancock and published in
February 1916. • No scientific records appear to exist for the
offspring of two pink parents. It appears that Hancock was only
able to successfully produce viable offspring from crosses of
one pink female to one green male.