Beautiful colored kaytdids

from Boing Boing by Mark Frauenfelder

Asahi Shimbun reports that a woman in Osaka discovered these pretty katydids in a field.

Osaka Museum of Natural History entomologist Itaru Kanazawa identifies them as the larvae of Euconocephalus thunbergi (”kubikirigisu” in Japanese), a close relative of the katydid. While he says it is normal for these insects to change between green and brown to match their surroundings, pink and white are considered abnormal.

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