Here’s a disturbing photo that came across Facebook the other day. And I always thought these katydids seemed like delightful, gentle forest nymphs. Who knew they could be vicious killers. This comes from The Biodiversity Group’s Facebook page, but I couldn’t locate the image on their website, though I didn’t look that hard. They identify the anole as A. princeps but don’t provide any further information.
Professor of Biology and Director of the Living Earth Collaborative at Washington University in Saint Louis. I've spent my entire professional career studying anoles and have discovered that the more I learn about anoles, the more I realize I don't know.
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Mason Ryan
Neat! Katydids are vicious killers! In Costa Rica I have seen Anolis polylepis and A. limifrons preyed upon by Katydids. But the katydids are not that picky because I have seen them eat tree-frog eggs and various Craugastor spp.