It sat there as we used a side flash for light, but finally got bored and probably was blinded from the flash, and flew off, maybe to find its brothers and sister. It's part of a huge family.
From the Encyclopedia Brittanica website-- "Katydids are more closely related to crickets than grasshoppers, as katydids and crickets belong to the same suborder (Ensifera). The Tettigoniidae family consists of about 6,000 species divided into 1,070 genera and 19 subfamilies."
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