Thursday, 30 September 2021

The First Question,

is it real?


the second question, what is it? photograph Sergio Monteiro/Public domain, it is in fact a Brazilian treehopper, (Bocydium globulare), the Treehoppers (Membracidae) are related to the cicadas, there are over 3200 species of treehoppers, and they can be found on every continent except Antarctica, but the Brazilian variant is the only one that sports this alien-like headdress, but some can sometimes resemble thorns, leaves and even bird droppings, but for myself Bocydium globulare is the strangest looking one of them all, what amazing creature there truly are in the animal kingdom,


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