Katydids

Another loud summer insect is just starting to emerge:  katydids.  They are also covered in Songsofinsects.com.  I'm talking about true katydids, although there are others in north GA--in August I hear what I think are red-headed meadow katydids singing mid-afternoon in the tall grass at the place I go running.  The nocturnal katydids are raucous and will become much more numerous in the coming weeks.  I heard one of the first this morning when walking the dog (at 5 am).  Their numbers will dwindle throughout the late summer and into the fall, but I often hear solitary ones some nights all the way up until a few days before Thanksgiving when it's warm enough.

These bugs are not particularly cool.  But they fill the night with sound, and they're starting to make their presence known.