LANTERN BUG
AMID THE BUSTLING CORNUCOPIA OF tropical life and the metallic flashes of beetles and butterflies, it sat statue still. It hadn't been there the night before as I walked to and from my rainforest lodge. Having only seen pictures or dreary museum specimens, it was my first live encounter with this strange, little-understood icon of the tropics, and nothing could quite prepare me for the real deal.
Fulgora laternaria has many monikers - lantern bug, lanternfly, machaca and alligator bug, to name a few. Mine was perched at head height on a tree trunk, and looking at it for the first time I was reminded of another popular and descriptive name for this insect: the peanutheaded bug. It did look for all the world like a monkey nut with wings, and one that had been generously sprinkled with icing sugar.
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