#Stilpnochlora couloniana

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slow-mo of a giant katydid absolutely ending you | source

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The Giant Katydid… what a chonker!

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Saltamontes hoja verde (Stilpnochlora couloniana) es una especie de insecto descrito por primera vez por Saussure en 1861.

Se adscribe al género Stilpnochlora de la familia de los tetigónidos. No hay subespecies listadas. Su cuerpo con alas verdes parecidas a las hojas de los árboles son utilizadas como camuflaje entre la vegetación.

Autor de la foto: Sammir Minda

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JuneBug: Celestial Giant Katydid (Stilpnochlora couloniana)

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This Giant Katydid (Stilpnochlora couloniana) is quite large by katydid standards, but still small in the grand scale of life. In this way, we are the same.

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Stilpnochlora couloniana (Giant Katydid), Family Tettigoniidae. Found on a concrete wall near my college campus’s library on this day, February 7th, 2022.

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Stilpnochlora couloniana, the Giant katydid Oak Village of the Trails in Volusia county, Florida 20 September 2015, Nikon D7100

This isn’t the first Giant katydid (Stilpnochlora couloniana) I’ve posted on phosTracks, and it most certainly won’t be the last. Ranging up to around four and a half inches in length, the Giant katydid sports an appropriate common name. This is one big katydid. In fact, the Giant katydid is the largest katydid species in North America. It’s also rather common in our Ormond Beach yard. I’ve found a decent number of these in the past few years and always adore coming across one.

They often retreat by climbing, and they often do so rather slowly. Honestly, I’m not sure why they don’t immediately take to wing when I find them, but for one reason or another, the Giant katydids I come across are more often than not content to just sort of lumber slowly out of reach. This usually affords me plenty of time to run and get my camera. Heh.

The Giant Katydid (Stilpnochlora couloniana), 20 September 2015 Stilpnochlora couloniana, the Giant katydid Oak Village of the Trails in Volusia county, Florida…