Oh what a bright green
From June 7 at Illinois Beach State Park here’s a nymph of a bush katydid in the genus Scudderia standing on a shiny new leaf of a riverbank grape vine, Vitis riparia.
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fantastic colors
moondustwriter
July 7, 2016 at 8:03 AM
They sure were, and that’s what drew me to take the picture.
Steve Schwartzman
July 7, 2016 at 9:46 AM
Excellent colours, not only the green! 🙂
Pit
July 7, 2016 at 8:11 AM
I found the brown to be an excellent complement to the green, even though I obviously had no say in choosing the colors.
Steve Schwartzman
July 7, 2016 at 9:48 AM
It certainly is.
Pit
July 7, 2016 at 9:59 AM
I’d like to see more of those bright colors applied to people’s clothing.
Steve Schwartzman
July 7, 2016 at 11:13 AM
beautifully composed, and well-spotted.
melissabluefineart
July 7, 2016 at 9:50 AM
I’m glad to show you a picture you hadn’t seen.
Steve Schwartzman
July 7, 2016 at 10:24 AM
As bright and shiny as the leaf is, it seems to have been a bit nibbled and gnawed. I read that katydids eat leaves, stems, flowers, and other bits of plant life, so your katydid nymph is at the top of my list of suspects for the leaf damage. Don’t you think it has a slightly guilty expression on its face?
I like the way the background green shines through the holes in the leaf, too. it’s a great complement to the shiny green nymph.
shoreacres
July 7, 2016 at 8:20 PM
I found some nibbled coreopsis flowers nearby as well. I expect you’re right that this katydid nymph and others of its kind are the culprits, even if I didn’t see any eating going on while I was there, and even if I can’t read insect expressions.
Like you, I appreciate the two tones of green here, which together complement the brown of the grape leaf. Now I can’t stop thinking about the two-tone cars of the late 1950s.
Steve Schwartzman
July 7, 2016 at 9:23 PM
So interesting .. I can see the resemblance to the parents. 😃
Julie@frogpondfarm
July 9, 2016 at 2:02 AM
So you say it’s apparent.
Steve Schwartzman
July 9, 2016 at 6:56 AM
Now you’ve got me remembering three-tone cars. Our swimming coach in grade school had a 3-tone ’56 Thunderbird that I immediately fell in love with. I remember asking him how much it cost, and I clearly remember him answering $3,000. Ah, those were the days! And now you’ve got Little Deuce Coupe running through my head too. Thanks a lot.
krikitarts
July 9, 2016 at 10:54 PM
You’re welcome. I’m glad to have made you a Rambler back through time.
As for the cost of the car you mentioned, here’s what I found online: “A simple Purchasing Power Calculator would say the relative value is $26,200.00. This answer is obtained by multiplying $3000 by the percentage increase in the CPI from 1956 to 2015.” Looked at in that light, things aren’t much different.
Steve Schwartzman
July 10, 2016 at 6:21 AM
I usually see a few of these in the yard by now. Not so this year…maybe I should head to the mid-west too.
Steve Gingold
July 10, 2016 at 2:24 PM
Go west, young man, go west.
Steve Schwartzman
July 10, 2016 at 2:41 PM