Edible? Hopper.

[Christel]

How about this gal?

Didn't expect anything this big this early, but found her on my asparagus...

 

[kinyonga]

Sorry... I don't know what it is.

 

[snitz427]

Thats a katydid! Maybe a meadow katydid. Safe to eat - they are very similar to grasshoppers, but katydids have long slender antenna, and grasshoppers have short stubby ones

 

[kinyonga]

That's what I was just looking up @ Anita...thought it might be a katydid. Good to know about the antennae difference! @snitz427

 

[Christel]

Thats a katydid! Maybe a meadow katydid. Safe to eat - they are very similar to grasshoppers, but katydids have long slender antenna, and grasshoppers have short stubby ones

Oh? I guess I didn't recognize it, I'm used to seeing katydids with sharp rhino-like horn-like structures where the ovipositor is.

I'd thought this one's face/head was too narrow, too. At least I'll know for next time I catch one. ?

 

[snitz427]

There are a bunch of species. Meadow Katydid, Conehead (yours might be this), Common Katydid, True Katydid, Anglewing, etc. some have very minor differences