Steely Dan albums

I hope that Steely Dan fans realize that the insect on the cover of 'Katy Lied' is a katydid. Very clever. I've run across a number who did not know that. 

@larsman 

"I hope that Steely Dan fans realize that the insect on the cover of 'Katy Lied' is a katydid. Very clever. I've run across a number who did not know that."

Funny, I would have called it a grasshopper.

@faustuss - and you'd have been wrong and there would have been nothing clever about SD putting it there. A katydid is a member of the locust family, like a grasshopper, but it's a different insect. It's called that because of the sound it makes, which is something like 'katydid katydid'. I used to study insects. 

Am I the only one who bought thier final LP Everything Must Go?  I don't think I've ever heard it mentioned on threads discussing Steely Dan. 

@larsman 

"@faustuss - and you'd have been wrong and there would have been nothing clever about SD putting it there. A katydid is a member of the locust family, like a grasshopper, but it's a different insect. It's called that because of the sound it makes, which is something like 'katydid katydid'. I used to study insects."

I've had my forays in botany and ichthyology. I might call a black knife fish a mormyrid or I might call it apteronotus albifrons or I might call it a fish.