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leafhopper

Sorry, couldn't resist...

 

"And it is a well-known law of digestion that what goes in, must come out. Leafhoppers do it with verve.

 

After digestion, the liquid sap is converted to a honeydew of sorts to be excreted. Red-banded leafhoppers expel this material with vim and vigor. From their abdomen to their posterior, their waste literally bubbles out of their bum with a popping sound. Potent and sweet farts of fluid are ejected in a rat, tat, tat machine-gun fashion, leading to another alias, the sharpshooter bug.

 

One entomologist (perhaps a 10-year-old boy in disguise) describes their derriere as a “fully-loaded butt cannon.” These excretions have a lot of appeal, since they are effectively sugar-laced bug pee, and wasps and flies will enthusiastically lap up this liquid..."

 

This isn't the red-banded leafhopper, but it appears the concept is the same...

 

vineyardgazette.com/news/2020/07/22/vim-and-vigor

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