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Standing out


Standing out
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Copyright: Tanja Alma (sily) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 252 W: 6 N: 391] (1859)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-05-05
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon PowerShot A710 IS
Exposure: f/4, 1/100 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-05-16 19:30
Viewed: 392
Points: 6
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The froghoppers, or the superfamily Cercopoidea, are a group of Hemipteran insects, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha. Traditionally, most of this superfamily was considered a single family, Cercopidae, but this family has been split into three separate families for many years now: the Aphrophoridae, Cercopidae, and Clastopteridae. More recently, the family Epipygidae has been removed from the Aphrophoridae. These families are best known for the nymph stage, which produces a cover of frothed-up plant sap resembling spit; the nymphs are therefore commonly known as spittlebugs, or spit bugs, and their froth as cuckoo spit or snake spit. The final family in the group, Machaerotidae, is known as the tube spittlebugs because the nymphs live in calcareous tubes, rather than producing froth as in the other families.
Adult froghoppers jump from plant to plant; some species can jump up to 70 cm vertically: a more impressive performance relative to body weight than fleas.
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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3030 W: 148 N: 4521] (14603)
  • [2007-05-17 10:17]

Hi Tanja.
I like your colourful picture so much. Black-red insect at the light-green BG looks very well. I also like the whole "ocean" of pleasantly colored plants. My best wishes and TFS.
Alexei.

Ciao Tanja, wonderful macro of this splendid bug with great colors, very well done, ciao Silvio

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  • Maite Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 979 W: 64 N: 1189] (4888)
  • [2007-05-29 7:53]

Hi again Tanjia
You captured an interesting bug with beautiful colors. I had never seen it. Well done!
Thank you very much for sharing.
Best wishes
Maite

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