Say hello to the planthopper.

[rug]

This planthopper exudes waxy secretions from the abdomen, and these sometimes form long strands which may provide protection from predators by fooling hungry predators into attacking the wrong part of the insect (the wax breaks off while the insect jumps to safety!)

It was one 1,378 species identified--as many as 60 of them new species--in the rainforest-clad mountains of Southeastern Suriname, South America, during a first-ever survey by international biologists of an area Conservation International described as "a wilderness area virtually without any human influence and among the most remote and unexplored tracts of rainforest left on Earth."

http://www.thedailygreen.com/weird-weather/weather-categories/nature-pictures/suriname-leafhopper-1310

Welcome to the known world, planthopper!

[NYC_SKP]

1. Wow, very effective distractive parts.

I was totally going to attack the wrong body parts.

Good job, planthopper!

Thank you for letting me into your world!

[Solly Mack]

2. Cool bug!

[B Calm]

3. Looks like good fish bait.

[OriginalGeek]

4. Welcome, Planthopper!

Now pack your shit. Now that we've discovered your land we must cut it down and burn it. Them condos ain't gonna build themselves!

[proReality]

5. Hmmm

I'm pretty sure my kids created that out of PlayDoh when they were small. We wondered where it got off to.

[unionthug777]

6. aahhhhhhhhhhh........

young planthopper..............

[chknltl]

7. Looks like a cross between a grasshopper and a shaving brush.

Might explain why it looks so clean shaven.

[hunter]

8. Fuzzbutt.

That would be a good common name for the beast.

[CFLDem]

9. It's like something from Dr Seuss.

[Jamaal510]

10. 1/2 Grasshopper, 1/2 Thing. nt

[valerief]

11. Wow, I could use him to brush on blush. (Only kidding.) Way cool. nt

[Northerner]

12. Geez, don't let fly fishermen see this.

[pinboy3niner]

13. I had to look closely to be sure it isn't a tied fly! nt