How to Use katydid in a Sentence

katydid

noun

• For a start, it’s only found in the first pair of legs where the katydid’s ears are.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2012
• Wing veins are often used to tell katydid species apart.
  — Peter Kirk, National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2017
• Wing veins are often used to tell katydid species apart.
  — Peter Kirk, National Geographic, 9 Jan. 2017
• But Naskrecki’s katydid will be confirmed as a new species.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• But Naskrecki’s katydid will be confirmed as a new species.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• This katydid mimics its surroundings with its leaf-like body and hind legs.
  — Sean Greene, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2017
• When the darkness crept in, the cool did, too, and confused crickets and katydids started their goodnight chorus.
  — Beth Thames, AL.com, 23 Aug. 2017
• These bats hunt by listening for the mating calls of several frog and katydid species.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2022
• Grasshoppers and katydids can be repelled with Surround WP.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 11 May 2020
• Then turning in early to the noise of katydids and switch-yards, car doors closing and voices in the street laughing into another night.
  — Cheryl Strayed, New York Times, 1 May 2017
• Still others, such as a katydid’s, have broadband hearing.
  — Stephanie Pain, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2018
• In the new study, the team reconstructed the song of a 150-year-old katydid called Prophalangopsis obscura.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2022
• To study their songs, Martinson puts a katydid in a recording studio, which is a mesh box with a miniature microphone.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• The technician finished his work and, before releasing the lemur, rewarded her with a katydid nearly the size of her head.
  — Dyan MacHan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
• There’s just something about a southern TV show—the manners, the accents, the katydids chirping in the background, heck, even the familiar dusty boots the characters wear remind us of home.
  — Southern Living, 19 Jan. 2017
• Male katydids, for example, produce a spermatophore during mating that can be up to 30 percent of their body mass, which contains both ejaculate and a mass of edible jelly.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 21 July 2017
• New insect species are discovered on a regular basis—just this month researchers detailed a wasp that takes over another species' mind, a moth that was named after Donald Trump and two species of katydid in Borneo whose females are pink.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2017
• New insect species are discovered on a regular basis—just this month researchers detailed a wasp that takes over another species' mind, a moth that was named after Donald Trump and two species of katydid in Borneo whose females are pink.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 31 Jan. 2017
• Scientists do not know exactly when insects started to first make or hear sounds, but the fossil record provides a minimum date: a katydid from around 250 million years ago has the sound-producing anatomy characteristic of this group.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
• Jurassic Cricket Biologists in Beijing determined the mating call of a 165-million-year-old male katydid by measuring fossils of the noisemaking apparatus in the insect’s wings.
  — Jill Neimark, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2012
• Participants included experts on, among many other groups, bees, dragonflies, katydids, and dung beetles.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
• The variety and specificity of these dispatches is delightful—there are appearances from katydids and coyotes, peaceful moments during storms, even an underwater recording from a canal in Ireland.
  — Erin Berger, Outside Online, 1 May 2020
• See different species of colorful beetles, ants and an ant mound, a cicada, butterflies, a firefly, a stink bug, a ladybug, a peacock jumping spider, a dragonfly, a walking stick, a katydid, a caterpillar and a hissing cockroach.
  — The Courier-Journal, 31 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Aug 2024