This small meadow katydid is about an inch long (25 mm). Females, shown in photos 1, 3 4 and 5, are generally brown and can also be partly green but they are almost always black on the side of the abdomen. Females have relatively large and straight ovipositors. Males, photos 2 and 6, are generally green bodied with tan wings and legs.
This katydid is common in this area. They range from eastern Nebraska to the east coast and south to northern Georgia and Oklahoma. They are typically seen in late summer and fall when the females are ready to deposit their eggs in grass stems. They prefer areas of coarse weeds with saplings and forest nearby and are sometimes found sitting on twigs of deciduous plants in full sun. A very hardy species, males can sometimes be found singing from tree branches on warm sunny days well after the first snow
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