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07-08-2009, 08:53 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Corfe Mullen, Dorset
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| | | Horned Leafhopper?
Is this a Horned Leafhopper - Ledra aurita??
Found in my little garden meadow last week climbing up the yellow rattle dried seed heads...  |
07-08-2009, 09:43 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: London
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| | | Re: Horned Leafhopper?
It certainly is! What an excellent find in your garden - the largest leafhopper in Europe and the only representative of its group to occur here. Any lichen-covered oaks nearby? |
07-08-2009, 10:56 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Corfe Mullen, Dorset
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| | | Re: Horned Leafhopper?
It was right underneath several beech and a single oak...
I was looking for bees and grasshoppers at the time and suddenly spotted it.
Bit of a surprise as I gather people don't see them very often...
Jane
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08-08-2009, 08:42 AM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Nanjing, China
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| | | Re: Horned Leafhopper?
Well, I've certainly never seen it, and I've been looking...  |
09-08-2009, 07:40 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Corfe Mullen, Dorset
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| | | Re: Horned Leafhopper?
I think I was just lucky.
Looking on the NBN Gateway map you can see how few have been recorded - presumably not because they are rare, just hard to see
I will submit the record to my local records office but wondered if I should also record it with the NBN
Jane |
09-08-2009, 11:12 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: London
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| | | Re: Horned Leafhopper?
Do send the record to the national recorder for Homoptera, Alan Stewart: Biological Records Centre - Recording Schemes
I have only seen this once and it's certainly not an insect people record very often | | |
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