CLOSED: Orange grasshopper type with red stinger

mandyjenks70 Crossville, TN Aug 13, 2008

Can you tell me if you know what type of bug this is? I don't have a pic but it was light orange in color about 2 inches long with log antannae that laid backwards and a curled up tail kind of like a scorpion with a red stinger looking thing at the end. It hopped away off my deck like a grasshopper and had the body like a grasshopper. Thanks

I also saw a moth a few days before with the same body. They looked like they could have been related. Weird

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ceejaytown The Woodlands, TX(Zone 9a) Aug 13, 2008

Sounds like it could be a katydid. Many have long antennae laid backwards, and the females of some species have an ovipositor that curls up. They resemble grasshoppers and hop like them too.

Here's a whole bunch of pictures of katydids. http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=katydid&search=Search

And more. If you scroll about 1/3 down, you'll see an orange katydid.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://whatsthatbug.com/images/katydid_orange_gary.jpg&imgrefurl=http://whatsthatbug.com/katy.html&h=295&w=216&sz=26&hl=en&start=1&sig2=t6mTCdChxPn-qsdXv75WsQ&um=1&tbnid=xesH9GMsvokeuM:&tbnh=115&tbnw=84&ei=hBWjSObbE4GaoQSyuczJDw&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkatydid%2Borange%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN

This message was edited Aug 13, 2008 12:14 PM