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A rainforest katydid just stunned scientists by glowing hot pink — then slowly turning green before their eyes, a color change no one knew insects could pull off
When researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute collected an adult female katydid from Barro Colorado Island ...
Intense hot pink morph of an adult female Arota festae. Photographed at 23:32 on 27 March 2025 on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, using a Sony A7CR camera with a LAOWA 90 mm f/2.8 lens and a Godox ...
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Meet the Katydid: The Bug That Looks Like a Leaf
A recent Journal of Orthoptera Research article describes two newly identified katydid species endemic to the southern Appalachian Mountains. The study examined the morphology and acoustic behaviors ...
A bizarre rainforest insect is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about camouflage. A katydid spotted glowing hot pink in Panama stunned researchers when it slowly transformed into green in ...
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We describe an exciting new observation of a katydid changing from hot pink to green in 11 days right in front of scientists.
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