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Field Notes

Description:

Yellow, awkward flyer

Notes:

Often captured by some sort of digging wasp. I've seen them carrying these yellow bugs into their holes, I'm not sure if the yellow guy is dead, immobilized, or just passive. The pictured one was being carried to a hole when it fell into a spider web, which the wasp had problems extracting it from

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
Michael Strydom
The body shape carachterises this insect as a type of Leafhopper. it is often sort after by wasps who paralyse them so they remain in a state of living . once sored in a burrow, the wasp lays the eggs in the leaf hopper which is then food for larvae. I found a wasp on the internet in Colorado in the USA that specialises in leaf hoppers http://bspm.agsci.colostate.edu/files/2013/03/Pseneo-punctatus-leafhopper-hunting-wasp.pdf so it is certainly possible in Tanzania.

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