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Giant Plant-hopper, Egg sack

Diareusa imitatrix

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Description:

I am going out of my mind.... I am trying to find out what this is and can not get anywhere!! I found it in the side of the road by my house attach to dry grass and surrounded by dry grass??

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Update for this spotting.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/653736005

Giant neotropical plant-hopper egg sack and First instar nymph of Diareusa imitatrix.
http://ag.udel.edu/delpha/2144.pdf.

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Comments (8)
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
Thank you so much, Juan DiTrani. They finally hatch, it was a egg mass. I will place some pictures, they are tiny creatures with a long square nose in front of their eyes!!
Juan DiTrani
This is an egg mass of a Fulgorid hopper (Fulgoridae)
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
I still have this cocoon in a jar, it got a little darker...I found it 8 days ago.. it is so interesting but I can not find anything to ID it.....Any ideas? : (
Sckel
Looks like egg mass.
Leuba Ridgway
Sorry to hear this is causing you so much distress, Gilma :) I hope someone can help - a lovely soft cocoon !

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PublishedJuly 20, 2014

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