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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Hoppers (Auchenorrhyncha) » Cicadas, Spittlebugs, Leafhoppers, and Treehoppers (Cicadomorpha) » Leafhoppers and Treehoppers (Membracoidea) » Typical Treehoppers (Membracidae) » Smiliinae » Amastrini » Vanduzea » Black Locust Treehopper (Vanduzea arquata)
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Black Locust Tree Hopper and ant - Vanduzea arquata
Copyright © 2010 Than Boves

Black Locust Tree Hopper and ant - Vanduzea arquata
Cumberland Mountains, Campbell County, Tennessee, USA
June 2, 2010
These were found on a black locust (obviously). Wondered what the ant sp. was and what the relationship between the ant the treehoppers is?

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Black Locust Tree Hopper and ant - Vanduzea arquata Black Locust Tree Hopper and ant - Vanduzea arquata
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Contributed by Than Boves on 2 June, 2010 - 5:11pm
Last updated 11 April, 2011 - 8:13pm

Moved
Moved from Treehoppers.
… john and jane balaban, 30 August, 2010 - 5:50pm login or register to post comments

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… john and jane balaban, 28 June, 2010 - 1:09pm login or register to post comments

Don't know what ant you've got...
...but it may be "tending" the hoppers for the sweet honeydew they produce. The ants get the honeydew, and the hoppers get protection from predators. A number of other photos in the Guide show this species being tended by ants.
… Ken Wolgemuth, 2 June, 2010 - 5:43pm login or register to post comments

 
Camponotus americanus
A soil-dwelling member of the carpenter ant genus, guarding and gathering honeydew from the hoppers.
… James C. Trager, 9 August, 2010 - 7:39pm login or register to post comments

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