Now that I’ve gotten used to searching for bugs, I do it everywhere. That means that when I’m walking around the lake, I’m not looking in front of myself or looking at my feet: I’m looking in the foliage for weird bugs.

During a break between watching the Northern Shoveler Boys at Sunset Bay, I noticed this male katydid perched on a colocasia leaf.

Zoinks! Like, let’s get out of here!

He tried to escape by crawling under the leaf.

Katydid, I can still look under the leaf and see you!

Then he seemed to remember that he had wings and flew away.