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Mutualisms between ants and treehoppers are so effective that sometimes multiple species can occur together on the same plant without conflicts. Here, a Myrmecaria ant worker tends to a short-horned Tricentrus sp., while an extravagantly adorned Pyrgauchenia biuni feeds nearby. Both of these treehoppers feed on the plant phloem, tapping into the stem with their proboscis, and secrete excess sugary fluid which the ants gather. In return the ants not only fiercely protect the treehoppers from predators, but sometimes also assist in distributing the young hoppers to suitable branches on the host stem. Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo).
Sharpshooters, Treehoppers, and Leafhoppers are like a world of their own, separate from everything else...they fascinate me!
Check out this pointy nug!! I tried to pick at it, thinking it was a weird growth on the goldenrod stem, and it moved! I believe this is wide-footed treehopper, Enchenopa latipes
It's a delight to find anything moving at this cold time of year. This Treehopper was moving, but not very fast.
A good example of a mutualism is the relationship between treehoppers nymphs and vespid wasps. The treehopper nymphs secrete a sugary solution called honeydew. Wasps and ants drink the honeydew and, in return, they protect the treehopper nymphs from predators.
embracoidea - Leafhoppers and Treehoppers
Cicadellidae - Typical Leafhoppers
Cicadellinae - Sharpshooters
Cicadellini
Draeculacephala
I've been trying to overcome my love-hate relationship with my macro lens. For me, it's been a hard genre to learn, probably if I didn't only do it in the summer, I could master it. I found this itty bitty bug on a flower stem in our backyard. I believe it is a Buffalo Treehopper. Ferguson, Missouri.
Thanks to Javier Rueda Gonzalez for the ID.
Moved from higher up on a tree trunk into a more photographable position.
Photo from Cocha Cashu Biological Station, Manu National park, Peruvian Amazon.
Photo from Sani lodge, bordering Yasuni national park, Ecuador.
Thanks to Bernhard Jacobi for the ID.
In the garden this morning I found three insects stationed within one cubic foot of one another: a grasshopper, a bumblebee and a two-horned treehopper. All seemed prepared to wait out the impending rain.
In fact I had trouble framing the treehopper without the larger grasshopper in the background. The treehopper played hide and seek or "moving thorn" with me. When I moved to observe it, it wood edge sideways around the thick valerian stem. After setting up the camera, I moved to the other side, thereby tricking the leafhopper into posing in the right place without a distracting larger insect in the background.
I expect unfamiliar insects to be hard to identify, but after the Lone Pine Bugs of Ontario suggested a likely relative, it was pretty easy to determine the species from Bugguide.net as a two-horned treehopper, Strictocephala diceros.
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This would be in the family Membracidae and likely subfamily Telamona.
Magnification just over 2x lifesized, 67 stacked images
Pentax K-01, DFA 50mm reverse mounted on extension.
IGP0881-0941 ZS DMap_tu3_tm1
They use vibration
To make communication
For copulation
"Research has shown that treehoppers use vibrations to attract mates, to announce the discovery of a good feeding site, or to alert a defending mother to the approach of a predator (T.IM)."
Umbonia crassicornis - Thorn Treehopper
Crassicornis is actually Latin for thick horn
11/22/2014 - Awesome camouflage. At a normal viewing distance they look like thorns on a tree until you get close and they begin walking around...
From Wiki:
Thorn bugs, due to their unusual appearance, have long interested naturalists. They are best known for their enlarged and ornate pronotum, which most often resembles thorns, apparently to aid camouflage. In some species, the pronotum is a horn-like extension, but can form more bizarre shapes. The specialised pronotum (or helmet) may not be simply an expansion of the prothoracic sclerite, but a fused pair of dorsal appendages of the first thoracic segment.
These may be serial homologues of insect wings, which are dorsal appendages of the second and/or third thoracic segments. Evidence for this theory includes the development of the helmet, which arises as a pair of appendages attached to each side of the dorsal prothorax by an articulation with muscles and a flexible membrane that allow it to be mobile. Also, the same genes are involved in development of the helmet and the wings.
For some reason, this type of treehopper can easily be found feeding on senduduk plants. And for this shot i took the low angle shot to give a different perspective of the insect.