Some Kind of Nymphs

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:17 am

Ran across these guys while out photographing and searching for some new lichens that I have not already seen. Not a very good image but it was the only one I took of them.

puzzledpaul · Post by **puzzledpaul** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:51 am

How's that old (read ancient) joke go ... 'What's black and white ... and red all over? ' ...

Spectacular colouring and a nice find.

pp

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:43 am

Really interesting creatures Ken. Tree & leafhoppers are one of my favorite insects because of their great diversity of shapes and colors

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:00 pm

Thanks guys, I kinda figured these were some kind of tree hopper. Never seen ones like these before though.

crocoite · Post by **crocoite** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:13 am

Could have come out of a Star Wars Trilogy...

Nice colour combo Ken.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:33 am

Thanks Steve, they do look sort of futuristic

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:47 am

Great!

They looks like a kind of space vehicles with red headlights.

Hey Ken, are you sure you did'nt paint them with some kind of lipstick?

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:06 am

It would have to be a very small tube of lipstick there Nikola. Most of them are around 2 to 3 mm in size.