#4181 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects

Fork-tailed Bush Katydid

Scudderia furcata

🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Stuart Tingley · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © David Hill · CC BY 4.0
3. © Chuck Sexton · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Katja Schulz · CC BY 4.0
5. Santa Rosa, CA, US:© Gustavo Vasquez · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Fundy National Park, Alma, NB, CA:© Sheila Furlong · CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Middlesex, CA-ON, CA:© Sawyer Dawson · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Squamish-Lillooet, BC, Canada:© Jeremy Gatten · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. West Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA:© Claire O'Neill · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Salton Dr., Austin, Travis Co., TX:© Chuck Sexton · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Scudderia furcata is a species in the family Tettigoniidae ("katydids"), in the order Orthoptera ("grasshoppers, crickets, katydids"). A common name for Scudderia furcata is "fork-tailed bush katydid". The distribution range of Scudderia furcata includes Central America and North America.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 33,815iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).