European lantern fly
The European lantern fly is a light green planthopper with a pointy, cone-shaped head that sticks out in front. Its wings are clear like glass, with pretty green veins. It hops around in warm, grassy places.
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Fun facts
Its name was borrowed from a different insect, a big lantern fly from another family.
The mother lays her eggs in the soil and covers each egg with earth, using special tools at the tip of her body.
Lantern flies talk to each other with tiny shakes and buzzes that travel through the plants.
There is a rare kind of this insect with a pink body.
Most asked questions about European lantern fly
?Is the European lantern fly dangerous?
No. It only drinks plant sap and is harmless to people.
?How big is the European lantern fly?
It is about 1 to 1.3 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dictyophara europaea
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Dictyopharidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Dictyopharidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Dictyophara europaea (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 Slimguy. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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