choppers

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Sitting on a plant sucking juices all day makes you a pretty easy target, so planthoppers often mimic leaves, similar to the way their close relatives the treehoppers mimic thorns and other plant bits.

From Scientific American • Sep. 10, 2015

The elaborate structures on the backs of treehoppers are really modified wings.

From Science Magazine • May 4, 2011

After an amateur entomologist friend complained that in trying to catch treehoppers he often wound up holding onto just the helmet, however, Nicolas Gompel and Benjamin Prud'homme began having second thoughts.

From Science Magazine • May 4, 2011

"The most unique aspect of vibrational communication in treehoppers is their use of vibrational signals in social interactions," Cocroft says.

From Scientific American • Mar. 22, 2011

If treehoppers are a pest, clean cultivation will help.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950 by Northern Nut Growers Association