OMG I would flip out if I seen this in my yard lol

[OxDionysus]

http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/inverts/bugfacts.html

 

[Vulgaris]

There's quite a number of these on bugguide now. Its occurs in katydids and tree hoppers most often. I have always wanted to find one too

http://bugguide.net/node/view/32354

 

[Teal]

Very cool!! There's a neat picture on Google of a green, white, and pink one all together on a person's arm.. pretty interesting!

 

[OxDionysus]

I have katydids all over in the summer in MI, I wonder if you had a male and female pink one if the offspring would be pink?

 

[Moltar]

That is so cool. If it's a genetic abnormality I'm surprised they're hanging on at all. Being flourescent pink is probably a liability when you're a common prey item for birds and stuff. Maybe it's a recessive trait and that's why they keep coming back?

 

[pwilson5]

That is so cool. If it's a genetic abnormality I'm surprised they're hanging on at all. Being flourescent pink is probably a liability when you're a common prey item for birds and stuff. Maybe it's a recessive trait and that's why they keep coming back?

what if birds thought they were hazardous to eat? like brightly colored butterflies and worms/caterpillars

 

[TalonAWD]

That would definately be a keeper. Thanks for sharing. Wow. Really nice and unique.

 

[dtknow]

Well, if it is indeed erythism...one should be able to produce a line or pink katydids.

 

[jebbewocky]

what if birds thought they were hazardous to eat? like brightly colored butterflies and worms/caterpillars

I'm not a bird, but I know *I* won't eat anything that's Chernoyble pink.

 

[burmish101]

I'm not a bird, but I know *I* won't eat anything that's Chernoyble pink.

Im guilty of this.

 

[MD92]

Guess I was the only one who clicked a few links that followed from that first one...Somewhere they managed to acquite a male and female pink katydid and did manage to breed a brood of pink babies which are now on display at a special insect display
)

 

[OxDionysus]

Guess I was the only one who clicked a few links that followed from that first one...Somewhere they managed to acquite a male and female pink katydid and did manage to breed a brood of pink babies which are now on display at a special insect display
)

well why didnt you post the link!!

 

[dociledragons]

wasn't hard to fine:

http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/agcomm/newscolumns/archives/OSL/2009/September/090924OSL.html

6th paragraph down

 

[bugmankeith]

I dont think pink is a liability especially if they emerge at night, thick vegetation can hide even a bright pink katydid. Besides, their call is enough to attract predators but yet the species lives on.

I see katydids here but never in pink, though I was lucky enough to see a pink tree hopper, but thought the pink one was just another species so let it go.

Anyway on this page someone had bred all pink katydids. http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/2009/02/rare_pink_katydids.php

Pink Katydid Facts:
• The parental katydids, both pink, were brought to Audubon Insectarium during
the summer of 2008 as donations by visitors.
• The pink katydids were sent off to Cokie Bauder, Manager of Animal Collections
at the Insectarium's Insect Rearing Facility, for supervision and care.
• The pink katydids are oblong-winged katydids, Amblycorypha oblongifolia.
• This unusual katydid coloration was first written about in a scientific article in
1878.
• The first and only available scientific research paper on the genetics of this
coloration and captive breeding was conducted by Dr. Joseph Hancock and
published in February 1916.
• No scientific records appear to exist for the offspring of two pink parents. It
appears that Hancock was only able to successfully produce viable offspring from
crosses of one pink female to one green male.

And, they also come in a yellow morph too which is rarer than the pink morph. You can see all the morphs here. http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/Walker/buzz/007a.htm

 

[FortCooper1982]

Amazing colour

 

[ribonzz]

What kind of hopper is it??

 

[x Mr Awesome x]

It's funny. I just got done replying in a thread where everyone was angry about some girl posting a vid of her handling an obt and I attempted to relate a point about me searching for and handling every bug I could get my hands on. Then I saw this! Okay, true story, no fibs. I actually caught one of these as a child growing up in rural southwest Missouri. I remember being completely captivated. I believe my mom took some pics of it too! This was twenty years ago though so it may be tough to find. Makes me glad to have been a curious little bug hunter!

 

[bugmankeith]

What kind of hopper is it??

Pink Katydid Facts:
• The parental katydids, both pink, were brought to Audubon Insectarium during
the summer of 2008 as donations by visitors.
• The pink katydids were sent off to Cokie Bauder, Manager of Animal Collections
at the Insectarium's Insect Rearing Facility, for supervision and care.
• The pink katydids are oblong-winged katydids, Amblycorypha oblongifolia.
• This unusual katydid coloration was first written about in a scientific article in
1878.
• The first and only available scientific research paper on the genetics of this
coloration and captive breeding was conducted by Dr. Joseph Hancock and
published in February 1916.
• No scientific records appear to exist for the offspring of two pink parents. It
appears that Hancock was only able to successfully produce viable offspring from
crosses of one pink female to one green male.