My gorgeous red-eyed katydid
ErinM31

My gorgeous red-eyed katydid

Neobarrettia spinosa, the red-eyed Katydid is quite a stunning insect and I am happy to have her as my guest! ^_^
Are you breeding them? Such a beautiful animal!
I hope so! I believe she’s been depositing eggs in a cup of deep substrate that I provided for that purpose. I hope to find a male to cohabit with her and often hear one call from trees outside my door at night.
 
She is also surprisingly particular! Grasshoppers she hunts with gusto but any species of cockroach is ignored. Anything left sitting in or even dropped by her in her terrarium is ignored, but she will sample fruit and take mealworms offered to her with tongs. She seemed to especially enjoy a grape, snipping open the skin and then eating out the flesh.
 

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