Green leafhopper
The green leafhopper is a small bug with a bright green back and a pale yellow head with two black spots. The females are turquoise green, while the males are bluish. It lives in wet, grassy places and can hop away very quickly.
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Fun facts
The females are a bit bigger than the males.
Males and females have different colours. The female's wings are turquoise green and the male's are bluish.
It spends the winter as an egg, and the babies hatch in spring.
Spiders are its main enemies.
You can see the grown-ups mostly from July to October.
Most asked questions about Green leafhopper
?Is the green leafhopper harmful?
Not to people. It just sucks sap from plants in wet meadows.
?What does the green leafhopper eat?
Plant sap from rushes, sedges, grasses and other plants.
?How big is the green leafhopper?
About 6 to 9 millimetres long. The females are bigger than the males.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cicadella viridis
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadellidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Cicadella viridis (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 Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga). CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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