He is along with a couple of other varieties of insect pests (giant thrips and aphids) that were brought into our Solar Room from a grower in Tennessee.

We ordered sedum for the new bed outside in the courtyard but received Dianthus and Hosta. Not understanding the importance of isolating any new plant to arrive, my husband shoved the unordered new plants in against existing solar room plants. We've been spraying with neem ever since. However, a sudden crop (6 on one dianthus flower) of these katydid nymphs still has now popped up anyhow. The dianthus probably had katydid eggs on the stem and they finally hatched out. What next???

Upon finding these katydids, I would have normally have just put the dianthus outside and let the baby katydids go back to Nature on their own. But we are still having freezing nights; while the host plant is one I'd now like to summer on the deck. Domestic flower and house plant growing is definitely an interesting mix of good and not so good. I'm not sure how to classify the katydids hatching out inside our home. Normally, I like katydids outside. They have never really harmed any of my plants before and they have a place in Nature's ecology.