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family - Psyllidae
tight cluster of extremely wholly insects, see last photo for extremely cropped and sharpened pic of the insects body.
temperate forest
I spotted these insects on the underside of a leaf while hiking with fellow ranger ForestDragon in Short Hills provincial park.
Spotted on Aug 25, 2013
Submitted on Nov 3, 2013
10 Comments
Thanks for the update Tamar. I've just ID'd to the family level for now.
Correction from Bug Guide, these are Psyllids. I don't know the species but they seem to look similar to genus Hemitrioza: http://bugguide.net/node/view/353956/bgp...
I don't feel confident to call it for that genus either.
According to BugGuide they are aphids. I don't have anything further than that unfortunately.
Don't worry kel, you can favorite it, you'll be okay, I won't tell.
I would put it in my favorites, but I can not be an accomplice to a crime. I'll still win my survival capsule in the Christmas?
! wow !
Haha kel! I glued his beard trimmings to a leaf!
omg, what did you do with Santa?
Yeah, I thought that too. I'm going to look through my photos, see if I can find one of the upperside of the leaf.
Do you have any idea what was the plant on which you found these? That would be very helpful for an identification of these creatures.