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Old 02-05-2010, 09:38 AM
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Weird night visitor insect

Last night this little guy flew in and landed on the dome
monitor. At first I thought it was a moth but it has a long
nose on it and looks like an anteater
I tried to get some closeups of it before it flew away.
He was quite placid and with some nudging I could get shots
from both sides of him.

Does anyone know what this is? Some sort of sap sucker or cicada?
Or simply a moth....?
Strange that something like this would be airborne at night, even though
there was still a 3/4 moon.

Steve
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Old 02-05-2010, 11:00 AM
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Wow, very strange!!
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Old 02-05-2010, 01:05 PM
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I always get my treehoppers, leafhoppers, and planthoppers all mixed up, but I'm pretty sure it's one of those. If I had to pick one, I'd say planthopper. Have a look at some of the images on bugguide.net
http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=planthopper
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Old 02-05-2010, 01:11 PM
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thanks Troy, Liz,
I had a look through....looks like this guy is pretty close?

http://bugguide.net/node/view/30539/bgimage

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Old 02-05-2010, 05:42 PM
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Ah, should have know it was a Rhynchomitra microrhina!!
A planthopper - never heard of them, ... well there you go.
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Old 02-05-2010, 09:40 PM
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Did you squash it Steve after the shot ?

One weird little critter.

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Old 04-05-2010, 01:50 PM
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this looks close

Thanatodictya praeferata (plant hopper)
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That Poor insect has a pain in the stomach (pin)
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Old 11-05-2010, 09:30 AM
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Not sure if any of you guys are interested, but I wrote this search engine plugin for BugGuide.net

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-eng...?name=bugguide
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Did you squash it Steve after the shot ?

One weird little critter.

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