Gum tree hopper (common jassid)

Ok.. putting up a red one with bronze wing covers.

I do also think they are the same species since your spectacular blue one has identical wing dot patterns as the others. I've suspected the blue is a male display pattern. Sometimes when creatures are actively in reproduction mode, their colors become more vivid. This includes redback spiders, fish, birds (dominant male magpie is the whitest) etc.

Hi Martin.. I have revisited some of my jassid communities. The blue femur ones with bronze wing covers have changed - some have got all black femurs, some have all red femurs, and some have half black and half red. Some have now got black wing covers and some not. Some have all red under-bodies and some banded red-pink. I now suspect they are probably all one species but that this species can (for whatever reasons?) change their colours quite markedly. Any thoughts?

Martin, about handling wildlife and being stung, check this:

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/856...

Thanks alice. I'm usually willing to handle wildlife even though I get stung sometimes. I teach kids to touch. Its directly in the sun and this adds to the glow. Check this one from underneath. http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showima...
and this one by argybee (see pic #2) that glows blueish http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/934...

The glow on your hand almost makes you think it has a rosy chest. When I think about it, we have a lot of hands-on people on Noah. Were we taught not to touch things when we were little?

So nymphs at http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/850... then but blue-pants http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/934... still might be different sp.?

Wow fantastic!

I wonder where she keeps her wardrobe... :-)

I think I've got itsID argybee. This link shows red pants too. http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showima...

Hey martin I've got a theory this one regularly changes it's pants. I've seen it with blue, orange, yellow and now red.