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Giant Plant-hopper, Egg sack and Nymph

Diareusa imitatrix

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Description:

Four weeks after I found this egg sack, on Costa Rica's Mother's Day, August 15th...they finally started coming out!! first they were cream color, same day they turned grey and a day later dark color, very tiny, 2 large dark eyes and a large long nose. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/479576008

Notes:

There is not much information on Egg sacks and Nymphs of Giant Plant-hoppers. I found a PDF of research done on exactly the egg sack and First instar of my spotting.
Giant neotropical plant-hoppers, egg sack and First instar nymph of Diareusa imitatrix.
http://ag.udel.edu/delpha/2144.pdf.

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Comments (4)
Gilma Jeannette Ospino Ferreira-Norman
Thank you, Sckel. Actually you said it was an "egg sack". When they all got dark on the 3rd day I placed them in one of my Gardens, I remember seeing one on a spotting, it looked as if it had a peanut for a nose....it could be it!!??
Sckel
ah, you save the egg sack? excellent job. where you will put the babies? they are weird. but I can see that they have rostrum. :)

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PublishedAugust 16, 2014

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