A question then an id please

the naturelover · #1 (**permalink**) 13-05-2011, 07:45 PM

Hi are these the same creature??? found today on different shrubs/trees/plant.
One black one red and one grey/black and white.
Could you then please tell me what it/they are called.

Klaas Reißmann · #2 (**permalink**) 13-05-2011, 08:25 PM

I don't know if they are all the same species, but it is all larvae of the order Auchenorrhyncha. I'm sorry, but as silly German I don't know what you call them vernacular. Maybe cicada, but in another thread I got misunderstood very easily by using this name.

Regards
Klaas

Jason Green · #3 (**permalink**) 13-05-2011, 08:31 PM

Evening all,

They look like they'll be different species, TN.

Take care,

Jason

triops · #4 (**permalink**) 13-05-2011, 09:35 PM

Klaas, not silly German at all! To be able to communicate so well in another language makes most of us very envious! Please keep doing it.

(In UK we have only one Cicada, Cicadetta montana, but many Cicadellidae and Cicadomorpha).

Acutipuerilis · #5 (**permalink**) 15-05-2011, 11:46 AM

We call them leafhoppers over here, Klaas.

These are all very early instars of different species, but the first might be an Idiocerus, the second an Oncopsis, and the third something more interesting. And that's as far as my neck will stick out on these ones.