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Two-horned treehopper

Stictocephala diceros
Eats: PlantsTrue bugs and cicadasForests and woods6 legs

The two-horned treehopper is a small brown bug. As its name says, it has two little horns on its back. It lives in forests and loves elderberry bushes.

Lives in
Eastern North America and a few western US states
Length
8 to 9 mm (0.31 to 0.35 in)
Top speed
about 1.1 km/h (0.68 mph)
On foot, estimate
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is a small plant juice drinker.
What does it eat?
It drinks plant juice, mostly from American black elderberry, but also from other flowering plants.
For real!Photo of Two-horned treehopper
Picture by Ryan Hodnett. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Two-horned treehopper about 9 mm long (0.35 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 fingernailas long as 1.5 grains of rice in a rowcould run across a dinner table in 3.3 secondsmoves 34 times its own body length every second

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Fun facts

1

It is only 8 to 9 millimetres long, smaller than your fingernail.

2

Its favourite food plant is the American black elderberry.

3

It lives in leafy forests from southern Canada down to the south-eastern United States.

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Most asked questions about Two-horned treehopper

?What does the two-horned treehopper eat?

It drinks plant juice, mostly from American black elderberry.

?How big is the two-horned treehopper?

About 8 to 9 millimetres long.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Stictocephala diceros
Group
True bugs and cicadas
Family
Membracidae
Classification
Insecta > Hemiptera > Membracidae
Lives on
North America

Where the facts come from

  1. Stictocephala diceros (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 Ryan Hodnett. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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