Garden Pests and Diseases: Friend or Foe #4, 0 by Night_Bloom

Night_Bloom wrote:
Katydids should have chewing mouthparts. Only true bugs (Hemiptera), Homoptera, and some flies technically have "beaks". One or two shouldn't do much damage.

Ditto the sheild bug on the damage front.

A long thin waist would not likely be a moth. They almost always have fat waists, even the ones that look like wasps - such as the squash vine borer. Yours sounds potentially like some kind of fly - such as a robber fly.

Speaking of robber flies, here's a small variety. This one isn't as intimidating as the larger variety I posted earlier or that was scaring konkreteblonde I think it was.