Aug 082014
This small green insect (perhaps a quarter-inch long) with furtive eyes and a body like a leaf is one of my new-found favorites along Piney Woods Church Road. It is a Cone-headed Planthopper (Acanalonia conica). A strict vegetarian, it feeds on a wide variety of plants by piercing them and sucking their juices. This one was not very masterful at evading my camera, though it did try to get away a few times by shifting to the other side of the stem, out of sight and reach.
