Photo by Edward O’Connor

Green Is the Color of Hope

Stalking the Black-legged Meadow Katydid

I. The photo

This all started at the end of September 2019, when a friend emailed me a photo she’d taken of a Black-legged Meadow Katydid. My friend and I are birders, and we share a subsidiary interest in butterflies and dragonflies. But katydids? I’d never seen one, so had never felt the urge to pursue and photograph them…