warm October katydid

A katydid of some sort has been singing all day right outside the front door on this toasty warm October morn: mostly two two syllables but sometimes three (ka-ty, ka-ty, ka-ty, ka-ty-did). We're talking about broad (if overcast) daylight on the last day of October -- not exactly the time you expect to hear a nighttime singer of late summer. It's a rather rough, robust call but definitely similar to the familiar nighttime katydids. I'm wondering if there is a late autumn species that sings in the daytime.

I'm still a long way from figuring out the singing insects of summer and fall.

Eric Salzman