Katydid

an insect of the locust family. The katydid lives in trees, feeding on foliage. It lays its eggs on twigs or leaves. Its body is pale green. As in the case of the green grasshoppers, which it much resembles, the ears of the katydid are situated on the front legs, below the knees. It smells with its long, delicate antennae. The wing covers overlap, and when rasped or rubbed the one on the other, produce the clear, energetic, "katydid, katydid," which gives the insect its name. Katydids are unknown in Europe. Comstock says that the sound of the snowy tree-cricket, much given to laying its eggs in raspberry canes, is often mistaken for the katydid. The katydid is quiet in the daytime but breaks into the stillness of the night with its querulous assertion. It persists and reasserts until one feels like saying, "Well, what of it? What if she did?" Oliver Wendell Holmes expresses this feeling in his oft quoted lines, To An Insect:

See Grasshopper; Locust