nibbling at your roses? Are there holes in your favourite
plant's leaves? The culprit could be the katydid. are large
green grasshopper-like insects that like to feed on the buds,
flowers, leaves and fruits of a variety of plants, including
roses and citrus. They particularly like the young, developing
fruit of citrus. You are likely to hear them more often than see
them, though, as they sing (a soft chirping sound) and feed at
night, hiding in long grasses (near the plants they feed on)
during the In a recent publication by HortResearch, katydids
were singled out as the suspected cause of deep, silver-grey
scarring that occurs on the exposed surfaces of satsuma fruit.
Whilst adult katydids are green, the nymphs take on the colour
of whatever they have been eating. In other words, if the nymph
has been feeding on a yellow rose, it will be yellow and will
remain this colour until it has moulted several times. If it has
been feeding on a red flower, it will be red. The female adults
lay their eggs, which look l