Pink Katydid

[yen_saw]

My newest pet.

 

[lancaster1313]

Very nice!

I sometimes raise little katydids until they are adults. Every nymph I find turns out to be a female.

I have never been lucky enough to find a pink one, even if they supposedly can be found in my area.

What species is she? I think I see an ovipositor back there.

 

[agent A]

how awesome!!! how do they camoflauge in the wild? do they hide among flamingoes?

very neat

 

[Bryce08]

ive not seen a pink one before, looks really cool

 

[ismart]

No way! I cant believe you managed to get one of those! Did you find it, or get it from somewhere? That's one beautiful bug! :wub:

 

[yen_saw]

Very nice!

I sometimes raise little katydids until they are adults. Every nymph I find turns out to be a female.

I have never been lucky enough to find a pink one, even if they supposedly can be found in my area.

What species is she? I think I see an ovipositor back there.

Amblycorypha oblongifolia (De Geer 1773), native to Texas too. This one is a female i think.

how awesome!!! how do they camoflauge in the wild? do they hide among flamingoes?

very neat

I think they hide amongst the pink flower. I don't know how can they survive in the wild being so 'outstanding'.

ive not seen a pink one before, looks really cool

Yeah they are rather rare. The color is due to genetic so they will continue to grow up in pink color.

No way! I cant believe you managed to get one of those! Did you find it, or get it from somewhere? That's one beautiful bug! :wub:

Thanks Paul. No the Houston museum of natural science gave a dozen to me after a successful breeding. They picked a pink couple for breeding so all the new generation will likely be pink too.

 

[agent A]

so u have a dozen?

will u have their nymphs for sale one of these days?

 

[yen_saw]

so u have a dozen?

will u have their nymphs for sale one of these days?

I hope to breed them. So if i am lucky then yes.

 

[Bryce08]

I hope to breed them. So if i am lucky then yes.

awesome!! look foward to seeing how that goes!!!

 

[twolfe]

Beautiful! I had no idea there were pink ones!

I found some green Katydids this summer and thought they were neat looking. But I ended up feeding them to a couple of my mantids when I was short on food.

I googled and see that the pink morphs have been found in Illinois and Michigan.

 

[patrickfraser]

Simply WILD!

 

[Precarious]

Beautiful! And are.

 

[yen_saw]

wow everyone in my family loves it :clap: Here is the pinkiest one, also the largest.

and is a female (see the curly ovipositor)

Here is the smallest one, it is getting pink too, still has some gray on the back.

 

[lunarstorm]

Wow! I had no idea something like this even existed in the U.S.

Thanks for sharing Yen, good luck with the breeding!

 

[Termite48]

This is a very nice specimen. I have never before seen a pink one. If it flew accidentally into the range of my Panther Chameleon, it would be gone in less that 3 seconds. The Panther loves katydids. I would never feed a pink one because it is so rare. Good luck yen.

Rich

 

[Idolofreak]

Nice!!! Always wanted to see a pink one in person. I've actually found a couple brown ones in my area before. Last year I found an adult male Neoconocephalus retusus that was so light brown he was almost white. This year in late August I found a brown adult female of the same species.

 

[meaganelise9]

Awesome! Who wouldn't want one really?

 

[happy1892]

Wow, they are beautiful!

 

[sporeworld]

Wow! Next big thing in bug-breeding!

A bug my girls would actually pick up!!!