Identification please

[elbowes]

Can anybody identify this very tiny insect for me, there were several of them on the silver birch leaves, they were different colour variations.

[Klaas Reißmann]

It is a Larvae of a cicada.

Regards
Klaas

[aeshna5]

Originally Posted by Klaas Reißmann

It is a Larvae of a cicada.

Regards
Klaas

Not in the UK it won't be.

[Klaas Reißmann]

I didn't write "genus" cicada, I wrote just "cicada". And I'm absolutely sure that there are cicadas in the UK.

Regards
Klaas

[Matt Smith]

It's a froghopper nymph of some sort.

We do have 1 species of Cicada in the UK, Cicadetta montana. I is only known from the New Forest andis very rare - not sure if there are any recent records for the past few years.

[Jason Green]

Morning E,

Originally Posted by Matt Smith

We do have 1 species of Cicada in the UK, Cicadetta montana. I is only known from the New Forest andis very rare - not sure if there are any recent records for the past few years.

The last thing I heard (on here in fact) was that things had exceeded the seven-year pre-imago stage without further records from the NF area - so is presumed extinct.

Take care,

Jason

[aeshna5]

Yes I also heard the one UK species was presumed extinct here, hence my original post.