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Speckled Sharpshooter

Paraulacizes irrorata

Photo by Small Wonders
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Field Notes

Description:

Sharpshooters feed on a wide variety of plants & can rob the plants of important nutrients because they have piercing-sucking mouthparts, but they also have the ability to transmit infectious pathogens from plant to plant. Natural enemies include mantids, dragonflies, free roaming spiders & parasitic wasps in the genus Gonatocerus.

Habitat:

Open areas with herbaceous plants. Overwinters as an adult under leaf litter.

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Comments (5)
Small Wonders
Oh yes, they are similar, but your glass-wing is so cool with the red veining on the wings! Thanks for sharing :)
CindyBinghamKeiser
Oh gosh, I sent you the link to the nymph :) I meant to send you the adult http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7196898 You can see the colors are similar to your spotting.
Small Wonders
Thank you! Wow Cindy, I love the colors of the Glassy-winged, quite a bit more tropical looking than the speckled.
CindyBinghamKeiser
I am fascinated by these sharpshooters! We don't have the Speckled where I live but we have the Glassy-winged http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/7331107

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PublishedNovember 10, 2011

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