Buffalo treehopper
The buffalo treehopper is a small, bright green bug shaped like a triangle. From the side its shape looks a bit like a tiny buffalo. On a branch it looks just like a thorn, so it is very hard to spot.
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Fun facts
The male sings to the female, but she does not hear it through the air. She feels it as a buzz through the plant.
The female cuts tiny slits in branches with a blade-like tool and lays up to a dozen eggs in each one.
The babies hatch in late spring and climb down to the grass to feed, then go back up to the trees as grown-ups.
The young ones look like spiky grown-ups without wings.
Most asked questions about Buffalo treehopper
?Why is it called a buffalo treehopper?
Because from the side its shape looks a little like an American bison, also called a buffalo.
?Is the buffalo treehopper harmful?
Not to people. It can damage young fruit trees by cutting slits for its eggs and sucking sap.
?How big is a buffalo treehopper?
It is about 6 to 8 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stictocephala bisonia
- Named by
- Kopp & Yonke, 1977
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Membracidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Membracidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Ceresa bisonia
Where the facts come from
- Buffalo treehopper (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Quartl. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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