There was much hemipteran activity on the black walnut trees earlier this summer. Yesterday's assassin bug was a casual visitor, hunting for arthropod prey, but these spittlebugs (family Cercopidae) may be host-plant specific to black walnut, and related trees. First, the "spittle;"
then the nymph in the spit,
(Doesn't he look a bit like a cicada?)
and finally, the adult cercopid.
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I have to confess I've never delved into a spittlebug's spittle, but now I'll keep that in mind as a possibility.
That nymph shot is fascinating.
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