Yesterday I heard a loud buzzing sound as a cicada (or July fly, as we call them around here) flew into the briars near me. I eyeballed it, wondering if I could get a good picture of it if I went for my camera. After looking at it for a while, I realized there was also a katydid in plain sight right above it. I say plain site, but it was rather camouflaged, being the same color as the leaf it was on. Those are 2 noisy insects. I rather enjoy the noises they make, probably because they remind me of hearing them in my childhood. The other night when it was cool enough to leave the windows open, I tried to pick out the chirp of the crickets, the trill of the toads, and the sawing sound of multiple katydids.
Anyway, when I came back with my camera, the cicada flew away, but the katydid only hopped a short distance, then allowed me to get a few pictures.
In the right light, the katydid was the same color as the leaf.
As far as sights, here are a couple of sights I was glad to see yesterday--
new shiitake mushrooms on my log,
and a lovely red bloom on the spider lily.
September is a lovely time of year.
Amazing pictures. I still so not know the different insect sounds, but I have not heard them for 30 years. I sat in the swing talking to Sherry and asked, what am I hearing?
ReplyDeleteShe said that must be the Katydid. Strange how it was so foreign to me. Love from the Piedmont