Surprised Hopper - _TNY_6347
Late October is a pretty poor month for bugs on the Stockholm, Sweden area, but after visiting my mother's summer house to change tires before winter comes, I had some luck with a couple of interesting spiders which got my spirits a little higher.
This was probably what made me stop at the Hemmesta sjöäng wetland on my way back in the hopes of finding more bugs to shoot.
Turns out I was right as I found two species of leafhoppers which both were new to me.
This one can't be identified to a species level based on my photos, but we can say that it is one of the species in the Populicerus genus, also called Idiocerus.
These guys suck sap from poplar and other Salix species which fits well with me finding it on a poplar. Also, it kinda looks like it messed up a bit when folding in those flight wings, right?
Surprised Hopper - _TNY_6347
Late October is a pretty poor month for bugs on the Stockholm, Sweden area, but after visiting my mother's summer house to change tires before winter comes, I had some luck with a couple of interesting spiders which got my spirits a little higher.
This was probably what made me stop at the Hemmesta sjöäng wetland on my way back in the hopes of finding more bugs to shoot.
Turns out I was right as I found two species of leafhoppers which both were new to me.
This one can't be identified to a species level based on my photos, but we can say that it is one of the species in the Populicerus genus, also called Idiocerus.
These guys suck sap from poplar and other Salix species which fits well with me finding it on a poplar. Also, it kinda looks like it messed up a bit when folding in those flight wings, right?