Calling All Katydid People!

[Dr O]

Someone please hook me up with some Kaydids! I feel so left out and so do my Parson's.

bummer.......what a BAD OWNER!! i'll tell you what Action, since jannb and i aparently live in Katydid Central and your Parson's are missing out terribly, why don't you just put that beautiful GOC on a trailer and plop in right down right next to mine. i'll then take care of your Parson's for you, you can rest easy, and jann and i can start to work out some breeding arrangements!

 

[UrbanChameleon]

Someone please hook me up with some Kaydids! I feel so let out and so do my Parson's.

Haha! Just out of curiosity.. is it legal to ship Katydids? You would assume that the feeder websites would have cornered this market by now if so. It would be so awesome to feed Katys to a Parsons. It would be the perfect size, and I bet they'd go nuts over their green coloration.

I think many things factor in when a Chameleon is enticed to eat an insect, one of which is the colors it displays. The bright greens drive them bonkers! Have you fed any of your red eyed Satan Katydids yet Texas Ranger? I know you've been pretty much keeping them as pets at this point. I'm curious if your Chams reaction would be different, as opposed to when they eat the Common Katy. I find it extremely interesting. I would love to get into the mind of a Chameleon. Obviously we can't give our Chameleons the food they would normally eat in their natural habitat. One would think that Katydids more closely resemble what a Chameleon would eat in say.. Madagascar. The stick like legs, bright colors, large body, etc. As opposed to the brown cricket that we use as a staple feeder.

On a side note.. the Katydid I had ate two large pieces of Romain Lettuce. It was super easy to gutload. Katydids should be much more common in the Chameleon community. All around good feeder. Just my two cents.

 

[UrbanChameleon]

ahahhaahaaa! told you those katy legs were strong!! it's ok, i've been where you've been and learned. thus the "C'mon Katy! Let's do the Twist!" (on your hip)!

it's a big meal but very digestible in all of my experiences; i really don't think you have anything to worry about. my chams won't usually even look at another meal for 4-5 days after, but keep the water going so everything stays nice and mushy in the gut. and the katy legs will digest just fine too; there's been occasion where i've only taken off one leg to give the cham more of a hunt rather than a dinner plate, and times when i've held the whole katy in my fingers for the cham so there was no screen; thus i didn't twist the legs. (twisting the legs will kill the katy by the next day or so, so if i'm not sure the cham is going to eat it, i will offer by hand and move down my cham line until someone wants it).

but bottom line for the record; IME katy legs, screens, and cham tongues can be too much in more than a few situations. strained tongue muscle, katy sharp leg spines, chams "flying towards the screen" (hehee!) do happen. feed them, but if in doubt i advise twisting the legs at the hip or even the knee, which gets rid of most of the "bad" part of the leg.

Their legs ARE strong! It held on so tight I thought Bobo was gonna have to eat the tweezers to get the thing!

Hahaha! Thank you for the advice. I'll be sure to "do the twist" next time Loki gets a hankerin' for a Katy. I tried to get it out of the keeper with tweezers, but it was extremely active. I ended up waiting for it to hop on the top part of the keeper, and quickly threw it on the bottom of his cage. I was so afraid it would jump out and I would never get it! It all happened so quickly.

I took a few pics, but they are horrible quality because it went down by the screen. I'll post the one pic (that a person can actually make out) when I get to my laptop.

 

[Texas Ranger]

No I haven't feed any red eye devil katydids I just started breeding them I don't think I will either they are just to freaky lol....... As fear as legal for shipping katydid eggs I am checking in to that threw my agg department.... There was a bug breeder a few years back that was selling these Florida giant katydids but then he went in to butterflys and dosnt sell them anymore....

Haha! Just out of curiosity.. is it legal to ship Katydids? You would assume that the feeder websites would have cornered this market by now if so. It would be so awesome to feed Katys to a Parsons. It would be the perfect size, and I bet they'd go nuts over their green coloration.

I think many things factor in when a Chameleon is enticed to eat an insect, one of which is the colors it displays. The bright greens drive them bonkers! Have you fed any of your red eyed Satan Katydids yet Texas Ranger? I know you've been pretty much keeping them as pets at this point. I'm curious if your Chams reaction would be different, as opposed to when they eat the Common Katy. I find it extremely interesting. I would love to get into the mind of a Chameleon. Obviously we can't give our Chameleons the food they would normally eat in their natural habitat. One would think that Katydids more closely resemble what a Chameleon would eat in say.. Madagascar. The stick like legs, bright colors, large body, etc. As opposed to the brown cricket that we use as a staple feeder.

On a side note.. the Katydid I had ate two large pieces of Romain Lettuce. It was super easy to gutload. Katydids should be much more common in the Chameleon community. All around good feeder. Just my two cents.

 

[SSimsswiSS]

It would be so awesome to feed Katys to a Parsons. It would be the perfect size, and I bet they'd go nuts over their green coloration.
Katydids should be much more common in the Chameleon community. All around good feeder. Just my two cents.

Katydids don't last long in a chameleon community.

 

[Action Jackson]

Going, going....

 

[UrbanChameleon]

Gone!!!

 

[Swayne8998]

Going, going....

Wow, can he/she really reach that far??