Candy-striped leafhopper
The candy-striped leafhopper looks like a tiny piece of candy. Its wings have bright red and blue or green stripes, and its head and legs are yellow. It is smaller than your fingernail and lives in meadows and woods.
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Fun facts
Its stripes can be red and blue, or orange and green.
It can carry a germ that makes some trees like elms and oaks sick.
Some people call it a sharpshooter.
It lives all the way from Canada down to Panama.
Most asked questions about Candy-striped leafhopper
?Is the candy-striped leafhopper harmful?
Not to people. It can spread a plant disease to some trees, though.
?What does a leafhopper eat?
It sucks sap from plants with its special straw-like mouth.
?How big is a candy-striped leafhopper?
Less than 1 centimetre long, smaller than a fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Graphocephala coccinea
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadellidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Red-banded leafhopper, Scarlet-and-green leafhopper, Red-and-blue leafhopper, Sharpshooter
Where the facts come from
- Graphocephala coccinea (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Kaldari. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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