Anyone Seen One Of These?

SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
edited March 15, 2007 in Holy Macro
Today when I was outside hanging out the washing,
I checked out the plants to see if I could seen any bugs :rolleyes
it's a habit :rofl can't help meself :rofl

I found this little thing, at first I thought it was some kind of bettle,
but when I disturbed it, it flew off like a fly would.
It came back, then I noticed there were quite a few of them.

These creatures are very tiny and I did not see the eye until I
actually had taken the shot and reviewed it, that's how small this bug is.

I'd guess the entire bug is approximately a half cm or 1/4inch in size.
When you see it this big in a picture it reminds me of a Cicadas when they first come up out of the ground before they split their shells.

Anyone know what it is? :scratch ..... Skippy :D

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  • GraphyFotozGraphyFotoz Registered Users Posts: 2,267 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    Wow KEWL! thumb.gifthumb.gif
    We like ODD bugs! :D

    I would say it IS a Aussy version of a Cicadas or at least same family?
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    Excellent capture Skippy.
    Agree it does look like a cicada
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  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    Yikes, doesn't look that appetizing rolleyes1.gifBeautiful shot, i have no clue what it is, i can tell what fly or ant look like but this? Who knows, where is that bug book? :D
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  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    Very nice Skippy. I have no idea what it is, sorry
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  • pete wpete w Registered Users Posts: 386 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    Looks like a Buffalo Treehopper
    A fruit pest i believe, different color though, must be from the same family.

    Link here http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/okwild/misc/bufftree.html.

    will keep looking to see if i can find the variety
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  • Ann McRaeAnn McRae Registered Users Posts: 4,584 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    Beauty skippy

    I do not know what it is, but found a couple links you might be interested in:

    http://www.whatsthatbug.com/cicadas.html

    http://www.abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/February2001/default.htm

    http://152.98.200.7/ins-info/index.htm

    great photo - way better than those on the id sites!


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  • pete wpete w Registered Users Posts: 386 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    Here you go
    Banksia Treehopper - Criito

    PS maybe you can sell them your pic its much better.:D





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  • pete wpete w Registered Users Posts: 386 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    linky
    http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_cicadas/BanksiaTreehopper.htm
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  • wally5656wally5656 Registered Users Posts: 448 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    Really nice shot Skippy, ya nailed that one!
  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    wow it an Alien !
    great i loved it iloveyou.gif
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    GraphyFotoz wrote:
    Wow KEWL! thumb.gifthumb.gif
    We like ODD bugs! :D

    I would say it IS a Aussy version of a Cicadas or at least same family?

    It's wayyyyy too tiny to be a cicada, it just looks big cause its a Macro shot, this bug is smaller than a fly .... odd looking isn't it .... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
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    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    Excellent capture Skippy.
    Agree it does look like a cicada
    Brian V.

    Thanks Brian, whatever they are they dont make noises, well none that I heard, I was surprised to see so many of them on the plant, they actually moved around like flies do, if you disturbed it, it simply flew to the next branch ......thanks for looking :D .... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    ShepsMom wrote:
    Yikes, doesn't look that appetizing rolleyes1.gifBeautiful shot, i have no clue what it is, i can tell what fly or ant look like but this? Who knows, where is that bug book? :D

    Ya know what, I have several bug books, but dang it that thing is in it,
    always the way hu? rolleyes1.gif ..... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
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    GREAPER wrote:
    Very nice Skippy. I have no idea what it is, sorry

    Ahhhhhhh Pete figured it out :D thanks for looking ..... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    pete w wrote:
    A fruit pest i believe, different color though, must be from the same family.

    Link here http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/okwild/misc/bufftree.html.

    will keep looking to see if i can find the variety

    Well thank you........ no fruit around, but looks very much like this green variety, thanks for the link :D .... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    Ann McRae wrote:
    Beauty skippy

    I do not know what it is, but found a couple links you might be interested in:

    http://www.whatsthatbug.com/cicadas.html

    http://www.abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/February2001/default.htm

    http://152.98.200.7/ins-info/index.htm

    great photo - way better than those on the id sites!


    ann

    Thanks Ann.... its a long way from home then cause I dont live anywhere near Queensland :D this variety is suppose to be from up that way.
    Thanks for the links too thumb.gif ... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 10, 2007
    pete w wrote:
    Banksia Treehopper - Criito

    PS maybe you can sell them your pic its much better.:D





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    Body length 10mm Mid summer in Alexandra Hill, all the Swamp Banksia plants had the new shots. On every new shot there were the treehoppers. Those Banksia Treehoppers were black in colour with bright orange and yellow on their body and wings. The black pronotum extending back over the abdomen and cover between wings.

    Well there ya go, well we do have a lot of natives in the area, and I know the people around here plant lots of natives.
    It's such a tiny thing, once I found one, I noticed there were actually heaps of them on the plant, but once disturbed they just would fly and move, or simply fly away, thanks for the ID Pete clap.gif .... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
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    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    wow it an Alien !
    great i loved it iloveyou.gif

    I still like that one you found that time that looked like a space creature,
    I've never forgotten that one Awais :D .... Skippy
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  • jbswearjbswear Registered Users Posts: 167 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2007
    Beautiful capture!


    It's a leaf hopper, or tree hopper, both are very similar. Thousands of varieties. They use a tube-like mandible to suck the fluids from the insides of stems. Leaf hoppers attack annual, soft bodies plants, while tree hoppers feed on woody plants.
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2007
    That is one wierd looking bug Skippy! Nice capture of a littley one thumb.gif
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2007
    jbswear wrote:
    Beautiful capture!


    It's a leaf hopper, or tree hopper, both are very similar. Thousands of varieties. They use a tube-like mandible to suck the fluids from the insides of stems. Leaf hoppers attack annual, soft bodies plants, while tree hoppers feed on woody plants.

    Thank you :D the plant they are feeding on is quite woody and has sharp prickles on it too ... actually there are a couple of catapillars having a go at the same plant, but they don't seem to be doing too much damage to it.

    They have probably been there the whole time, and I have just never taken any notice of them, because they are so small.

    Thank you for your input :D ..... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2007
    BigAl wrote:
    That is one wierd looking bug Skippy! Nice capture of a littley one thumb.gif

    Well of course you do realize this means I have to find something else to photograph don't ya rolleyes1.gif

    Why can't I find something that is a decent size :D .... Skippy
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  • Mike LaneMike Lane Registered Users Posts: 7,106 Major grins
    edited March 11, 2007
    I don't know what it is Skip. But it's from Australia so it's probably so poisonous that it'll kill you in 10 seconds if you get within 5 (edit: 1.524 metre...) feet of it. So I'd steer clear if I were you. eek7.gif

    nice shot though :D
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
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    Mike Lane wrote:
    I don't know what it is Skip. But it's from Australia so it's probably so poisonous that it'll kill you in 10 seconds if you get within 5 (edit: 1.524 metre...) feet of it. So I'd steer clear if I were you. eek7.gif

    nice shot though :D

    Thanks Mike, I was looking something at least an inch big but ne_nau.gif
    Nothing much around my place, have to settle for the tiny things instead.
    My garage has got more redbacks in it than an outdoor dunny I tell ya :D

    This ones just a bug, tiny, harmless...... I need to find a biggy next time nod.gif
    Thanks for looking ...... Skippy
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  • mrcoonsmrcoons Registered Users Posts: 653 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2007
    A neat shot, Skippy! I just wish I hadn't been eating lunch when I saw it!rolleyes1.gif
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  • DalantechDalantech Registered Users Posts: 1,519 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2007
    Well done Skippy! thumb.gif
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  • tleetlee Registered Users Posts: 1,090 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2007
    Cool bug. Nice shot!
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2007
    mrcoons wrote:
    A neat shot, Skippy! I just wish I hadn't been eating lunch when I saw it!rolleyes1.gif

    Ahhhhh its just a bit of protein in a different form rolleyes1.gif
    If you see one for real it won't look like my photo, because these things are soooooooooooo tiny.

    Hope you kept your lunch down :D .... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
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    Dalantech wrote:
    Well done Skippy! thumb.gif

    Thank you :D .... Skippy
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited March 12, 2007
    tlee wrote:
    Cool bug. Nice shot!

    I need to find some different bugs to photograph,
    droughts taking its toll even on the bugs ne_nau.gif

    Thanks for looking ...... Skippy
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