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Different-horned tree cricket

Oecanthus varicornis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) suspicious_salmon, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 11, February 10, March 12, April 22, May 14, June 19, July 7, August 6, September 7, October 14, November 16, December 10.
United States128
Texas123
Mexico9
Kentucky2
Illinois2
Sinaloa2
Yucatan2
Oklahoma1
Hidalgo1
Michoacan de Ocampo1

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderGrasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids · Orthoptera
FamilyTree Crickets and Bush Crickets · Oecanthidae
GenusCommon Tree Crickets · Oecanthus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Different-horned tree cricket with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.