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Saddled leafhopper

Colladonus clitellarius
Name means: “back-saddled”
Eats: PlantsTrue bugs and cicadasForests and woods6 legs

The saddled leafhopper is a tiny brown and black bug with a bright green mark on its back. The mark looks like a little saddle. Even its eyes are striped in two colours.

Lives in
Eastern North America, mostly in forests of the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada
Length
5 to 6 mm (0.2 to 0.24 in)
Top speed
about 0.87 km/h (0.54 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless to people. It can carry a disease that makes peach trees sick.
What does it eat?
It sucks sap from plants such as willows and honey locust trees.
For real!Photo of Saddled leafhopper
Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Saddled leafhopper about 6 mm long (0.24 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)
small enough to sit on your fingernailcould run across a dinner table in 4.1 secondsmoves 40 times its own body length every second

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cool stuff

Fun facts

1

The males are often a little smaller than the females.

2

Its babies look like the grown-ups but paler and blotchy.

3

You can see the grown-ups from May to November.

4

It can spread a germ called cherry X disease to peach trees.

you asked

Most asked questions about Saddled leafhopper

?Why is it called the saddled leafhopper?

Because of the green saddle-shaped mark on its back. Its scientific name means the same.

?How big is the saddled leafhopper?

Only 5 to 6 millimetres long.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Colladonus clitellarius
Group
True bugs and cicadas
Family
Cicadellidae
Classification
Insecta > Hemiptera > Cicadellidae
Lives on
North America

Where the facts come from

  1. Colladonus clitellarius (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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