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Speckled Sharpshooter
Photos © Kim Hosen; Featherstone National Wildlife Refuge, Woodbridge, VA; November 2010    

Speckled Sharpshooter
Paraulacizes irrorata
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Superfamily Cicadoidea
Family Cicadellidae (Leafhoppers)

Overwinter as adults, sheltering in leaf litter in wooded areas.

In the spring, they move to more open areas and lay eggs in woody twigs and the petioles of a variety of plants.

A wasp, Gonatocerus fasciatus, sometimes parasitizes the eggs.