#citrus flatid planthopper

[onenicebugperday]

@mintyfreshrat submitted: Opened submissions at just the right time! I've found a moth friend who did not like to be photographed, and flew right against my phone

As for the ID, I'm curious on who this little leafhopper could be?

It was found in [removed] (remove please!)

I suppose I wouldn't love a giant chasing me around with a camera either. But glad you got some pics because it's very pretty! The other dude is a citrus flatid planthopper rather than a leafhopper :)

[alcnfr]

Citrus Flatid Planthopper (Metcalfa pruinosa) not on a citrus plant, but on a Chinese Fringe Flower (Loropetalum chinense var. rubrum)

[toothedgoose]

Metcalfa pruinosa (Hemiptera: Flatidae)

Citrus flatid planthopper

20 of July 2023 - Maryland, USA

These friends are a univoltine species, overwintering in the egg stage and then hatching out as nymphs. The nymphs look quite different, being apterous (wingless) as well as a much lighter color with waxy filaments to avoid predation.

Voltinism refers to the number of generations an organism has per year.

Univoltine: one generation per year

Bivoltine: two generations per year

Trivoltine: three generations per year

[xrinsu]

blue little guy :) will add ids later

[horsebeast]

citrus flatid planthopper Metcalfa pruinosa

[amoebattle]

More macro photos!

Bug species under the read more :)

If an ID has a (?) It means I'm not 100% certain on the species.

Greater Angelwing Katydid (?)

North American Wheel Bug

Hackberry Emperor

Bell's Roadside-Skipper (?)

Citrus Flatid Planthopper

Pale Green Assassin Bug (?) (Maybe freshly molted?)

[zuzsenpai]

Zuzu's Bug-ventures: Home Edition!

I'm so behind on identifying these, but most of them were from last week. Some I've already posted on their own, but I thought I would add them to the week's collection.

Bronzed cutworm moth (Nephelodes minians). I don't think I've ever looked up what moths look like when they're mating, but I guess this is it!

Eastern harvestman (Leiobunum vittatum). Found it on the porch and honestly thought it was dead. It disappeared by the evening, so either it wasn't dead, or something grabbed it

Western honey bee (Apis mellifera). Always a welcome sight

Eastern yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons). All these directions!

Four-lined silverfish (Ctenolepisma lineatum). Without fail, these guys are always in the sink after you come back from a trip

Unsure of ID. Possibly a huntsman spider of some kind. It was pretty big and very dead

Small grass skipper butterfly (Atalopedes campestris). After 50000 blurry skipper photos, one of them finally decided to let me get a good one

Peck's skipper butterfly (Polites peckius). There were so many different kinds of skippers out and about!

Silver-spotted skipper butterfly (Epargyreus clarus). Action shot, but it was just the right angle to see identify it as a silver-spotted one

Small grass skipper butterfly (Atalopedes campestris). Yes, a second one. But it looks different enough from the first that I thought I would post it. And we're done with the skippers now, I promise (at least for this post)

Unsure of ID, but it's definitely the underside of a jumping spider

Flea jumping spider (naphrys pulex). These are so cute. They're my favorite jumping spider at this point

Eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica). I have no idea how my phone was able to accomplish this one. Perfect bee. Gorgeous. No notes

Unsure of ID. NO idea. I know it's hard to see, but this extremely tiny spider made an incredible web

Dusky Stink Bug (Euschistus tristigmus). Just a guy. It was funny because my dad was like "look! there's a cool bug on my car for your collection!" and I had to tell him that it was just a stink bug

Unsure of ID. Possibly a plant bug (Megaloceroea recticornis).

Varied carpet beetle larva (Anthrenus verbasci). This was on my wall. Hopefully it was the only one!

Unsure of ID. Possibly Alebra aurea, which is a type of leafhopper.

Giant crane fly (Nephrotoma ferruginea). This one is super dead, but you can see my pictures of it doing alive stuff here.

Unsure of ID. I'm thinking just a curled up millipede

Winter ant (Prenolepis imparis). I was ready to ignore this thinking it was an ant I've seen before a zillion times. But looking closer, it's really pretty! Apparently they're usually active in the winter/cold weather, so I'm not sure what this guy was doing hanging around when it was late September and 68 degrees.

Minettia magna. Can't find the common name. The internet's just calling it a fly

Unsure of ID. Red velvet mite? Clover mite? I used to be fascinated by these little guys as a kid

Pennsylvania ground beetle (Harpalus pensylvanicus). I mean, it do be hanging out in Pennsylvania, I'll give it that. I saved this one after I saw it crawl under a recliner in my parents' house

Unsure of ID. Something in the Anthidium genus. This one is dead, hanging by a single leg stuck to a flower bud.

Long-bodied cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides). They're ridiculously cute. Also I've never seen one not upside down lol.

Citrus flatid planthopper (Metcalfa pruinosa). This was my favorite (and cutest) find of the week! I thought it was a tiny bird poop, but thought I saw legs, so I zoomed in with my phone and caught this little fella! Incredible, incredible.

So there you have it for last week! In order to stop myself from getting frustrated at the lack of quality in my photos, I decided my main goal is not to take gorgeous bug photos, but instead to try and take the best photos I can with the shittiest phone camera. And I think I've done a pretty good job of testing the limits of this thing!

[the-atrium-of-fools]

Do you like bug? If yes, what's your favorite bug? If no, which bug do you dislike the most?

YEs!! I like bug very much

favourite bug is hard tho, theres so many

planthoppers are very cute i think!!

they arent great for plants usually, but they are little guys and they hop so

yee (:

(the ones ive probably seen in my area are called Citrus Flatid planthoppers)

[adobe-outdesign]

[7/28/20] Citrus Flatid Planthopper, Metcalfa pruinosa.

Is there anything more charming than a planthopper? I would argue no

[dendroica]

Citrus Flatid Planthopper, Metcalfa pruinosa (by me)

[dinoserious]

doin an october drawing challenge in the form of bugtober, a little self made thing where i choose a bug for the day and. well. draw it

for clarification, i am considering any arthropod for bug status

day one was wheel bug, day two is citrus flatid planthopper

[onenicebugperday]

@bungerc0re submitted: a little guy on my cake cover in [[removed], please remove], he had super yellow eyes and legs, and jumped almost 2 meters away!

Big hop for a cute lil hopper! Looks like a citrus flatid planthopper :)

[squire-jaybird]

a group of Citrus Flatid Planthopper(Metcalfa pruinosa)

[youneedone2]

Planthopper Gears | Posterior view of the trochanteral cog and pleural arch of the citrus flatid planthopper (Metcalfa pruinosa) nymph. The semi-lunar arch serves as a spring storing the energy for jump; the power is supplied by a large trochanteral depressor muscle (not shown) inserting in the top part of the arch and into the funnel-shaped tendon visible in the lower part of the image. Depth color coding. Photo’s by Blepharopsis

[shownumetal]

found a weird little guy today. citrus flatid planthopper, not even a half inch long. i’ve only ever seen green planthoppers so this was exciting! here’s a clearer pic from wikipedia

[crystalkleure]

Funny story time

Once, when I was really little, at my grandparents’ house, I saw a little white feather on the bed. I thought that was a little weird, because there WAS a peacock ornament on the wall right above that bed that DID have real feathers on it, but none of those feathers were white. They were normal-peacock-feather-coloured.

I got real close to the little white feather, trying to figure out if it looked like it came off of something else in the house and just got tracked in here, out of curiosity, and I thought I saw it move. Feathers do not move on their own, so I thought that was weird and assumed my breathing on it had just made it do that, but it was still Weird and I Wasn’t Sure, so I reached out and touched the little white feather Ever So Gently with the very tip of my fingernail.

And it disappeared.

The fucking thing just vanished into thin air! Little me briefly wondered if he had developed awesome psychic feather-teleportation abilities, but that was stupid so instead he assumed he just accidentally breathed on it again and blew it away. Looked around all over the place and absolutely could not find where it went, though.

And now, in hindsight, I realize that was absolutely not a feather and was most probably a Citrus Flatid Planthopper. Which is a tiny little fluffy white bug. Which hops. And thus would decidedly most definitely hop far away from something that were to unexpectedly touch it. Like the edge of a giant’s fingernail.

The “feather” just jumped away from me and ran for its tiny little life