Sonoma Mountain Ecology Notes

Celebrating and Caring for the Land

Who Hid Her Eggs?…Katydid.

This female fork-tailed bush katydid, Scudderia furcata, chews an opening along a leaf margin and inserts her ovipositor into the leaf tissue where she deposits a fertilized egg case. The eggs overwinter to develop and hatch in the spring.

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