#homoptera

[skeksi-boiz]

Obviously haven't finished the hemiptera section yet lol that's going to be more than one page

Been kinda busy due to vacation so haven't made too many pages, but I've memorized all the families seen on these pages so that's progress I guess

I'm also making a personality test on u quiz to see what insect order you are and it's taken an insane amount of time because there's 30 answers but it'll be done this week probably and I'll link it here

[nanonaturalist]

TIME TO SCREAM

Late spring in central Texas, nice and warm, not quite hot enough to melt your shoes, but hot enough to melt everything in your car.

But it’s not summer until...

the trees start screaming!

I have heard some cicadas farther east of me (a different species than I have), but so far, this year has been quiet. So I feel like I have been visited by the Cicada Queen, who has bestowed upon me a great honor: I saw my first cicada before I heard it. She was hiding in the elm that popped up in my yard!

So beautiful and perfect!!!

Superb Dog-day Cicada

June 3, 2019

[usgsbiml]

Treehopper.  Note, it is not THE treehopper but one of 91 known species in Maryland and thousands world wide.  Which one is a great question, have a side and a top shot coming so maybe we can work that out.   In the mean time realize that these crazy architectural beings are common and you kill or brush them aside in your yard all the time (if you haven't sprayed it down for mosquitoes that is).   This one found on the research lands of USDA now identified as a possible private rail yard for the MAGLEV.  this minibeast treehopper was captured by entomologist in training Danie Phan and photographed by biology college boy Anders Croft. maybe this landscape will be there for them when they get to be my age.  Or, ... not.  

[wapiti3]

Homoptera (Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids, Whiteflies, Scale Insects) 

photo source-The MacroClub Project

[kirinsect]

Aphid farmer…
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Ants typically contain and tend to aphids like we do with cows. So essentially, ants have livestock!!
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https://www.instagram.com/p/B0SDz6mHQi6/?igshid=1hujn0j896ytk

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

Triple Threat!

(Northern Flatid planthoppers, Anormenis chloris)

[hisj]

_Euricania facialis_ #Homoptera #Ricaniidae #スケバハゴロモ 和名がすけべ羽衣と聞こえるのは、翅の模様がおっさんの間抜け面に見えることが影響しているのだろう。

[usgsbiml]

Can Nature do this?  Why create a red and blue Leafhopper and put it in the Dominican Republic.  Sigh.  Saw a number of these pretty things in the highlands of the D.R.  This particular shot of said boldhopper was taken as it floated in hand sanitizer in a cuvette.