Cleonus piger, the sluggish weevil, was discovered for the first time, infesting the roots of Pitcher's thistle, in 2013. It typically kills the plant and if it is an adult, the plant is killed before seeds can be produced. The specimen was collected from a restoration population of Pitcher's thistle at the Indiana Dunes, by Kathryn McEachern, Megan Korte and Noel Pavlovic. Photograph by Amber Reese
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200, link to a .pdf of our set up is located in our profile
[taxonomy:binomial=Bocydium globulare]
[taxonomy:family=Membracidae]
I had some technical problems this day, so the substrate-borne vibrations cannot be heard well in this video. But it is still cool to watch this species, one of the treehoppers with the coolest pronotums. Here you can see three adults in the wild, one of them signaling when it vibrates its abdomen.
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes. Year: 2010.
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