female Homalodisca coagulata (Say) depositing brochosomes

Female Homalodisca coagulata (Say), the glassy-winged sharpshooter, using her hind legs to scrape brochosomes onto an egg mass that she has just inserted into a holly leaf.


Video by: Analog video footage by Russ Mizell; digitized and edited by Chris Tipping; University of Florida


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