How to Use katydid in a Sentence

katydid

noun
  • Wing veins are often used to tell katydid species apart.
    — Peter Kirk, National Geographic, 2017-01-09
  • Main prey for larvae is katydids.
    — Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
  • For a start, it’s only found in the first pair of legs where the katydid’s ears are.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 2012-11-15
  • This katydid mimics its surroundings with its leaf-like body and hind legs.
    — Sean Greene, chicagotribune.com, 2017-05-22
  • But Naskrecki’s katydid will be confirmed as a new species.
    — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2017-05-02
  • These bats hunt by listening for the mating calls of several frog and katydid species.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2022-06-27
  • Then the screech of a spiny lobster katydid, or giant lobster cricket, ricochets among the trees.
    — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2023
  • When the darkness crept in, the cool did, too, and confused crickets and katydids started their goodnight chorus.
    — Beth Thames, AL.com, 2017-08-23
  • Each cell is stocked with paralyzed tree crickets, katydids and other orthoptera insects.
    — Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
  • Grasshoppers and katydids can be repelled with Surround WP.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 2020-05-11
  • Forty-seven grasshopper, katydid, and cricket taxa were also uncovered, three of which were new to science.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 3 June 2026
  • Then turning in early to the noise of katydids and switch-yards, car doors closing and voices in the street laughing into another night.
    — Cheryl Strayed, New York Times, 2017-05-01
  • To study their songs, Martinson puts a katydid in a recording studio, which is a mesh box with a miniature microphone.
    — Washington Post, 2021-05-24
  • Participants included experts on, among many other groups, bees, dragonflies, katydids, and dung beetles.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 2023-03-13
  • No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
    — Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 8 Aug. 2025
  • There’s just something about a southern TV show—the manners, the accents, the katydids chirping in the background, heck, even the familiar dusty boots the characters wear remind us of home.
    — Southern Living, 2017-01-19
  • Using your nets or the park’s, bring your friends and family to catch a variety of butterflies, grasshoppers, praying mantises, katydids, beetles and other native pollinators and meadow insects.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 2023-08-31
  • The variety and specificity of these dispatches is delightful—there are appearances from katydids and coyotes, peaceful moments during storms, even an underwater recording from a canal in Ireland.
    — Erin Berger, Outside Online, 2020-05-01
  • Scientists do not know exactly when insects started to first make or hear sounds, but the fossil record provides a minimum date: a katydid from around 250 million years ago has the sound-producing anatomy characteristic of this group.
    — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 2022-01-01
  • See different species of colorful beetles, ants and an ant mound, a cicada, butterflies, a firefly, a stink bug, a ladybug, a peacock jumping spider, a dragonfly, a walking stick, a katydid, a caterpillar and a hissing cockroach.
    — The Courier-Journal, 2022-08-31
  • To learn more about what the matador bugs are doing, a team from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) exposed the bugs to two different types of arthropods–praying mantids and katydids.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Sep. 2025

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