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Posts Tagged: Orthoptera
Katydid, Katy Didn't
My late father, who called me "Katydid," loved poetry.Decades after he passed, a cousin gave me a set of his books from his childhood home. One was "The Early Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes," published in 1899 by T. Y. Crowell and Company.In it is a poem, "To an Insect," and it's about katydids."I...
Fork-tailed bush katydid on salvia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)