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Bizzare star wars
by: bryan

Hi, I have never seen an insect like this before, but very interesting, are they dangerous?
susan's bugs
by: Kyle Noble

susan in the blue ridge of sw va,
are you perhaps the susan i know in the master gardeners program? if not, it's a great group.
great
by: Anonymous

really good photos of tree bugs, please expand!
Truly Star War Fighters!
by: Moni

This is a great photo of a most interesting and truly a 'Star Wars' looking character!! This has to be one of my all time favorite pictures!
It took me a while, but I finally figured out what they were. They are the nymph or young stage of the Oak Treehopper. They don't do significant damage to the trees. They have a close relative the Thornbug that can cause damage to trees.
aptly named
by: kath

Part of me wants to say HOW CUTE! Not in either of my bug books. How big are they? Is it just one little group or are there a number of clusters?
These Are Cicadas
by: Rob aka Celt

These are a species of newly hatched cicadas. You know the funny buzzing sound you hear in the trees in the evenings. Many people refer to these as 'locusts'. However locusts is a more appropriate name for the ravenous grasshopper swarms of biblical proportions. Cicadas are in the insect Order: Homoptera. They are very similar to Hemiptera because they both have beak-like mouthparts used for 'sucking'. The Cicada's family is 'Cicadidae', and come in all kinds of sizes and colors. Their wings are membranous and eyes are most notably on either side of their head. These buggers spend 2-5 years underground in their larval state. There is a cicada species called the 17-year cicadas, and the 13-year cicadas where you only hear and see them every 17 and 13 years respectively. They are virtually harmless to your plants and pose no threat. This is a great picture however, and you caught them before their wings are fully developed.
Incidentally, if you find them as they are shedding their larval shell and try to help them out, their wings will not develop correctly and you can cause permanent harm to them.
Tree Jewelry
by: Anonymous

What an unusual looking bug! - some sort of beetle??

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