[ID] Several bugs... please!

Jason Green · #1 (**permalink**) 31-05-2009, 12:52 AM

Hi all!

Just a few bugs please!

Mostly found on one excursion in my garden around 9pm...

30/5/09, the garden

1. Psyllid...
...in red and green

30/5/09, the garden

2. Black aphid...
...3-4mm long, possibly on prickly sow-thistle?

30/5/09, the garden

3. White/translucent-looking leafhopper
...I suspect a juvenile? Edwardsiana sp.? On brambles

30/5/09, the garden

4. Yellow + white leafhopper...
...is it Notus flavipennis? On brambles.

30/5/09, the garden

5. Second white-yellow leafhopper
...maybe Fagocyba cruenta? On herb robert

Thanks for looking, all!!

Take care,

Jason

Hedge Witch · #2 (**permalink**) 31-05-2009, 06:21 AM

Jason, Are you sure the aphid was still living? It looks like one of those parasitized pictures that people have been posting lately

Jason Green · #3 (**permalink**) 31-05-2009, 02:00 PM

Hi Hedgy!

Yes, it was alive. Very dopy in effect, but still moved a bit when touched. It appeared to be in the middle of a feed as it was only secured to the leaf by it's mouthparts, presumably! I wouldn't mind betting it had been parasitized very recently though...