How to Use katydid in a Sentence

katydid

noun

• 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, 15 Nov. 2012
• This katydid mimics its surroundings with its leaf-like body and hind legs.
  — Sean Greene, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
• These bats hunt by listening for the mating calls of several frog and katydid species.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2022
• The katydid’s rosy complexion is due to a condition called erythrism.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 25 July 2023
• 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, 23 Aug. 2017
• Each cell is stocked with paralyzed tree crickets, katydids and other orthoptera insects.
  — Pamm Cooper, Hartford Courant, 9 May 2026
• Mormon crickets are technically not crickets but a type of katydid.
  — Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
• 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, 1 May 2017
• The birds feast on grasshoppers, katydids, walking sticks and various caterpillars.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
• To study their songs, Martinson puts a katydid in a recording studio, which is a mesh box with a miniature microphone.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• The technician finished his work and, before releasing the lemur, rewarded her with a katydid nearly the size of her head.
  — Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
• The sun is engulfed, the sky dips into darkness, and the frenetic sounds of confused crickets, katydids, and cicadas come into focus.
  — Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2024
• In a video posted to his Instagram account, Woodruff displays a pink katydid nestled between two fingers.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 25 July 2023
• In the new study, the team reconstructed the song of a 150-year-old katydid called Prophalangopsis obscura.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
• Participants included experts on, among many other groups, bees, dragonflies, katydids, and dung beetles.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Male katydids, for example, produce a spermatophore during mating that can be up to 30 percent of their body mass, which contains both ejaculate and a mass of edible jelly.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 21 July 2017
• 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, 19 Jan. 2017
• 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, 31 Aug. 2023
• 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, 1 May 2020
• 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, 31 Aug. 2022
• Jurassic Cricket Biologists in Beijing determined the mating call of a 165-million-year-old male katydid by measuring fossils of the noisemaking apparatus in the insect’s wings.
  — Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2012
• 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