Northern Bush Katydid (Scudderia septentrionalis) (Etna, ME; 8/6/2010) Katydids, or bush-crickets–though they resemble grasshoppers and are also known as long-horned grasshoppers–are actually more closely related to crickets than to any type of grasshopper.  They belong to a family called Tettigoniidae in the order Orthoptera, and get their common name based on the