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Bothrogonia addita – Leafhopper Location is Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Alongside a stream and paddy fields.<br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/37787/bothrogonia_addita_leafhopper.html" title="Bothrogonia addita &ndash; Leafhopper"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/2784/37787_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=9gAkNJ%2FWBD9%2BKoriV0HODRRu6BM%3D" width="200" height="200" alt="Bothrogonia addita &ndash; Leafhopper Colorful and easy to spot on the green of the scrubland, but difficult to get near for the shot. Sometimes I think I should just get me a net, and put them in the fridge for 5 minutes &ndash; but no, where&rsquo;s the challenge in that. David Baily doesn&rsquo;t put the kids in the fridge to stop them fidgeting, he is a professional.<br /> <br /> One thing that I have learned in three years of snapping bugs. They live lives also, and they have been doing it a lot longer than humans. The reason that they don&rsquo;t have massive brains and build brick houses, is that they reached evolutionary perfection and did not need the massive brain. This is a perfection that the human genus will never achieve.<br /> <br /> Location is Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Alongside a stream and paddy fields.<br /> http://www.jungledragon.com/image/37786/bothrogonia_addita_leafhopper.html<br /> http://www.jungledragon.com/image/37788/bothrogonia_addita_leafhopper.html Bandung,Bothrogonia addita,Geotagged,Indonesia,Java,West Java,Winter,hopper,leaf hopper,orange" /></a></figure> Bandung,Bothrogonia addita,Geotagged,Indonesia,Java,West Java,Winter,hopper,leaf hopper,orange Click/tap to enlarge

Bothrogonia addita – Leafhopper

Location is Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Alongside a stream and paddy fields.

Bothrogonia addita – Leafhopper Colorful and easy to spot on the green of the scrubland, but difficult to get near for the shot. Sometimes I think I should just get me a net, and put them in the fridge for 5 minutes – but no, where’s the challenge in that. David Baily doesn’t put the kids in the fridge to stop them fidgeting, he is a professional.<br /> <br /> One thing that I have learned in three years of snapping bugs. They live lives also, and they have been doing it a lot longer than humans. The reason that they don’t have massive brains and build brick houses, is that they reached evolutionary perfection and did not need the massive brain. This is a perfection that the human genus will never achieve.<br /> <br /> Location is Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Alongside a stream and paddy fields.<br /> http://www.jungledragon.com/image/37786/bothrogonia_addita_leafhopper.html<br /> http://www.jungledragon.com/image/37788/bothrogonia_addita_leafhopper.html Bandung,Bothrogonia addita,Geotagged,Indonesia,Java,West Java,Winter,hopper,leaf hopper,orange

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Bothrogonia addita is a species of Leafhopper from the family of Cicadellidae.

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Similar species: True Bugs
Species identified by Ferdy Christant
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Uploaded Apr 13, 2016. Captured Jul 19, 2013 11:18 in Jl. Lavender No.8, Ciwaruga, Parongpong, Kabupaten Bandung Barat, Jawa Barat, Indonesia.
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  • NIKON D7000
  • f/8.0
  • 1/250s
  • ISO320
  • 105mm
Captured in the winter. More winter photos.