Passionvine hopper
The passionvine hopper is a small brown bug with see-through wings that looks a bit like a tiny moth. Its babies have no wings, but they have a fluffy tail that sticks up like a little powder puff. People call them fluffy bums.
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Fun facts
It walks on tiptoes, like a little ballerina.
If you disturb it, it jumps off its plant with a snap.
Even though it is called a passionvine hopper, it lives on lots of different plants.
It came to New Zealand from Australia and was first seen there in 1878.
Most asked questions about Passionvine hopper
?What is a fluffy bum bug?
It is the baby of the passionvine hopper, which has a fluffy tail sticking up.
?Is the passionvine hopper harmful?
It cannot hurt you, but it sucks sap from garden plants and can be a garden pest.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Scolypopa australis
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Ricaniidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Ricaniidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Fluffy bum
Where the facts come from
- Scolypopa australis (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 Richard001. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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