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  1. In their rebellious adolescent years, Guayaquila gracilicornis treehoppers sport garish stripes and spikes, before maturing into more stately and traditional thorn bugs (Ecuador). #Membracidae #Insects #Treehoppers #Nature

  2. In Colombia I finally got a photograph of the famous ant-mimicking treehopper Cyphonia clavata. They're tiny and skittish, so not so easy as some of the larger treehoppers.

    The mimicry works better from afar, where the weird pronotal outgrowths look a lot like ants.

    #Membracidae #Treehoppers #Cyphonia #insects

  3. Umbonia crassicornis, a tropical thorn bug I photographed a few years ago in Colombia.

    #Umbonia #Membracidae #Treehoppers #Insects

  4. I just love treehoppers. They’re so… weird.

    Here’s an Entylia being tended by an acrobat ant on sunflower. Texas.

    #Insects #Treehoppers #Membracidae #Crematogaster