Leafhopper

Order: Hemiptera

Family: Cicadellidae

Genus: Varies

Species: Varies

Identifying Characteristics:

- Adults: elongated, wedge shaped and somewhat triangular in cross section

- Size: range from 1/8 - 1/2 in

- Color: bodies are yellow, green, gray, or they may be marked with color patterns

- Nymphs: resemble adults but they are wingless

Special Characteristics:

- Adults can jump and fly off readily

- Nymphs can run rapidly, occasionally sideways, and hop

- Overwinter eggs are inserted into leaf veins, shoots, or stems or host plants

- Leafhoppers can be somewhat specific to certain host plants

- As a group they feed on leaves of a wide variety of plants including many types of grasses, flowers, vegetables, fruit trees, shrubs, deciduous trees, and weeds

- Leafhoppers are one of the largest families of plant-feeding insects

- Found almost anywhere because there are so many different species of leafhoppers