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Yellow, awkward flyer
Often captured by some sort of digging wasp. I've seen them carrying these yellow bugs into their holes, I'm not sure if the yellow guy is dead, immobilized, or just passive. The pictured one was being carried to a hole when it fell into a spider web, which the wasp had problems extracting it from
Spotted on Jan 21, 2016
Submitted on Feb 29, 2016
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The body shape carachterises this insect as a type of Leafhopper. it is often sort after by wasps who paralyse them so they remain in a state of living . once sored in a burrow, the wasp lays the eggs in the leaf hopper which is then food for larvae. I found a wasp on the internet in Colorado in the USA that specialises in leaf hoppers http://bspm.agsci.colostate.edu/files/20... so it is certainly possible in Tanzania.