Color week Monday

juvenile katydid with early morning dew
Early one morning, before the sun was breaking through the trees and clearing away the night’s dew, I caught this juvenile katydid warily eyeing the drop off the edge of the leaf.

[No, that’s not true, look at those hind legs. These insects can leap ridiculous distances – they’re not scared of heights. I doubt the concept even exists within the brains of the arthropod phylum.]

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