Leafhopper (Cicadellinae: genus Ladoffa) from Belize. Twelve new species from this genus were formally described recently, including two new species from Belize (Freytag + Lozada 2013).
A colony of oleander aphids, Aphis nerii, feeds on milkweed in Iowa. Like monarch butterflies, these insects extract heart-stoppingly toxic chemicals called cardiac glycosides from milkweed and store them as a defense mechanism.
Mating Twice-stabbed Stink Bugs, Cosmopepla lintneriana, in Wisconsin.
