Scudder's Bush Katydids

[James Lemon]

Scudderia is a genus of katydids in the subfamily Phaneropterinae.[2] They are sometimes called bush katydids and are 30–38 mm in length.[3] Their range is much of North America from southern Canada southward in deciduous forests, shrublands, grasslands. Some can even be in more lush parts of some desert areas from southern California southward. They are herbivores, with nymphs feeding primarily on flowers and adults preferring woody deciduous plants​

 

[Asher Kelman]

So that’s a female by the sickle shape ovipositor??

It’s essentially a cricket

Nice picture.

Funny there’s a serrated edge on that sickle thing as if it was designed as a saw, LOL.

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I wonder whether its sharpness is to grip a twig for laying its seeds, which they also in a double row on twigs!

Asher