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Membracis foliata
Very beautiful creatures, I only saw them two times and at the same spot.
Truly amazing. Thanks for sharing these beauties with us Pieter and Congratulations on the SOTD !!
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Great capture Peter,amazing shape and collour,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing
If Dehli is like Chennai (my second home) cars get rear-ended regularly without any locusts :-)
Mark, I donot think I have ever seen such a hopper before (apart from grasshoppers I have seen few ; ) but I have seen a locus plague in Delhi...in the 1990s...car windshields got smeared and then cars got rear-ended . They ate all my plants in the balcony. My apartment for a few days was very crowded with pots indeed.........your comments just trigerred a memory. I saved one locust in formalin and gave it to the small museum we had in our Delhi office. But yes, even well-adjusted parasites do not kill their hosts so I suppose the right host will not be damaged to any great extent...Thanks. Sukanya
I've never heard of a 'right' hopper species damaging it's 'right' host plant to any serious extent.. just doesn't make sense evolutionarily.. have you seen such a thing ? I suppose there are the occasional locust plagues.. but even then I think they occur after unusual rains and excessive green growth and might make sense in the bigger picture. Always willing to learn though. :)
Mark Ridgway...very right. I totally subscribe. Let me re-phrase...do hoppers damage plants? :)
Congrats Pieter. Fabulous tree hopper! ...
SukanyaDatta !!? you know every creature has it's place and it's only humans that turn them into pests.