Orthopterans contain some of the most familiar insects to people- the Plague locust which (in the absence of predators and an abundance of food can devastate our cerial crops) and the mole cricket that makes that weird single tone noise in the back yard.
Katydid
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Another long face- Acrida conica
Grasshopper and empty shell
Cricket on the lawn.
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Cory the Bark-mimicking Grasshopper
Mating crickets
Grasshopper plague
Carnage
Gecko Matchstick, Geckomima sp.
Tasmaniacris tasmaniensis
Gekkomima
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Metholce nigritarsis
Leichhardt's Grasshopper
Undescribed Katydid, possibly in the genus Polichne