{"id":896,"date":"2025-08-25T16:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/?p=896"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:41:39","slug":"katydid-damage-to-citrus-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/2025\/08\/katydid-damage-to-citrus-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Katydid Damage to Citrus Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Figure 1:<\/strong> Adult katydid feeding on fruit. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I previously talked about fruit damage caused by birds scratching and puncturing green fruit. There is another type of damage to citrus fruit caused by an insect that looks like a grasshopper called a katydid.\u00a0 These insects are green and well camouflaged. They develop flat wings as adults that make them look like a leaf (Fig. 1)<\/strong>. If you find a fruit that appears to have scar tissue that is very different looking than the peel, that is likely caused by the feeding of a katydid (Fig. 2)<\/strong>. Immature katydids or nymphs (Fig. 3)<\/strong>, will feed on the fruit when it is small, often smaller than a dime. The feeding pattern is often a roundish in shape but can be irregular. If the fruit doesn\u2019t fall off it will form a blemish that looks like a scar and be a lighter gray or tan color (Fig. 4)<\/strong>. This blemish is often very distinct from the normal green citrus peel. The damage from these insects is usually not widespread enough to be a problem in commercial groves but the damage will make the fruit unsellable. In early spring you can often find the flat, oval egg casings of a katy-did embedded in the edge of a leaf (Fig. 5)<\/strong>. The nymphs will emerge in April and May leaving a tiny hole in the egg casing.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 2:<\/strong> Feeding scar caused by a katydid.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 3: <\/strong>Immature katydid on citrus foliage. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 4<\/strong>: Damage caused on a young fruit that will later appear as a large scar on the fruit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Figure 5:<\/strong> Katydid eggs on the edge of a citrus leaf. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I previously talked about fruit damage caused by birds scratching and puncturing green fruit. There is another type of damage to citrus fruit caused by an insect that looks like a grasshopper called a katydid.\u00a0 These insects are green and well camouflaged. They develop flat wings as adults that make them look like a leaf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16,1],"tags":[29,32,54,40,51,44],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-citrus-production","category-pest-information","category-uncategorized","tag-citrus","tag-georgia","tag-insects","tag-pest-management","tag-pests","tag-satsuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/citrus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}