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Jul 5, 2015 7:39 AM CST
Name: Sue
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I'd wondered about grasshopper nymphs too but couldn't find a clear picture of one that small and on one or two of the youngest that I found the insect looked to have a harder exoskeleton than Zencat's, which confused me . The angle of the head bothered me for leafhopper though, although I did find some leafhopper nymphs that had a part (beak?) pointing down, but it certainly looks more like a grasshopper's head.

On Zencat's picture the two projections on the head look different thicknesses or is it just that one is pointing away? A leafhopper shouldn't have an obviously thickened antenna like that - that and the angle of the head made me wonder if it had been slightly damaged. It not it certainly does look more like a grasshopper. On the other hand leafhoppers can occur in huge numbers in grass also and would be quite teeny tiny....... In any question like this I would defer to Janet Smiling

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