Before Andreas Kay, a very talented nature photographer, passed away in 2019, he managed to capture what looks like a tiny walking piece of popcorn or clump of snow. However, this small creature is actually called a flatid planthopper nymph. The insect covers itself in waxy secretions, which allows it to better hide from predators. You can find this variety of planthopper in the Amazon Forest. These insects feed by inserting their tiny beaks into plants’ vascular systems and sucking out nutrient-rich sap using kind-of a natural hydraulic pump inside their heads. The byproduct from how they feed is an excretion of a sticky substance known as honeydew that tends to attract other insects such as ants and wasps.
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