5. Crickets, grasshoppers, leafhoppers and planthoppers
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BO - 1998 Borneo
VN - 1999 Venezuela
EC - 2000 Ecuador
CR - 2001 Costa Rica
TH - 2002 Thailand
OZ - 2003 Australia
MD - 2004 Madagascar
UK - United Kingdom
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Unsorted
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1 Crickets
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Female crickets have a spikey tail which is an oovipositor for laying eggs.
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905j01 OZ CRW_0518a
905j02 OZ CRW_0900a 905j03OZ CRW_0901a
905j104 OZ CRW_0497a cricket
905j05 OZ CRW_0870a
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2 Grasshoppers
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905j201 OZ CRW_0641a
905j202 OZ CRW_0459
905j203 OZ CRW_0630a
905j204 OZ CRW_1334
905j205 OZ CRW_0959a
905j206 EC xxxxxxa grasshopper eyes in filmholder
905j207 OZ CRW_0879a
905j208 OZ Img_9491a
905j209 MD IP9S2835j
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3 Leafhoppers
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Wikipedia: a leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family Cicadellidae. These minute insects, colloquially known as hoppers, are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees. N.B. I'm not an entomologist so I can only guess these are leafhoppers and not planthoppers.
If anybody visits this page and knows different, even better the species names, please let me know!
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905j301 MD IP9S4540a red yellow blue hopper.jpg
905j302 OZ CRW_1480a 905j303 OZ CRW_1474a
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4 Planthoppers
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Wikipedia: a planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha: in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha. As with the leafhoppers, I >think< these are planthoppers. If anyone knows for sure, please let me know.
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The black one might be related to:
Balsam Woolly Adelgid (Adelges piceae), a serious pest of fir trees
https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/15156/view/balsam-woolly-adelgid
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905j401 OZ CRW_1417
905j402 OZ CRW_1456a
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