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The great Lanternfly mystery

The great Lanternfly mystery SPECIES BY SPECIES K.G. Andrew Hamilton [wooden] box until she should have an opportunity of drawing them [as adults]. In the middle of the night the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada confined insects [which included cicadas] made such a Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6 noise as to awake her, and on opening the box [by candle- CANADA light], to her great astonishment the inside seemed to be hamiltona@em.agr.ca in a blaze, which caused her in fright to drop the same, when she was no less surprised to see each of the es- The "Peanut-head Bug" or "Lanternfly," Fulgora caped insects apparently on fire. She added that the light laternaria ( L.), is the most famous and puzzling of the emitted from one of these insects was sufficiently bright planthoppers. An inhabitant of the New World tropics, it to enable her to read a newspaper." is one of the largest of jumping bugs. Its body measures The "lantern light" may have been simply reflected 5-7 cm (2-3 inches) in length, including an inch-long candlelight (Schriks 1982) magnified by memory once "snout," and it has a wing spread of 13 cm (5 inches). It she had returned to the Netherlands to publish her http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biodiversity Taylor & Francis

The great Lanternfly mystery

Andrew Hamilton, K. G.
Biodiversity , Volume 1 (4): 2 – Nov 1, 2000
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10.1080/14888386.2000.9712523
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SPECIES BY SPECIES K.G. Andrew Hamilton [wooden] box until she should have an opportunity of drawing them [as adults]. In the middle of the night the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada confined insects [which included cicadas] made such a Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6 noise as to awake her, and on opening the box [by candle- CANADA light], to her great astonishment the inside seemed to be hamiltona@em.agr.ca in a blaze, which caused her in fright to drop the same, when she was no less surprised to see each of the es- The "Peanut-head Bug" or "Lanternfly," Fulgora caped insects apparently on fire. She added that the light laternaria ( L.), is the most famous and puzzling of the emitted from one of these insects was sufficiently bright planthoppers. An inhabitant of the New World tropics, it to enable her to read a newspaper." is one of the largest of jumping bugs. Its body measures The "lantern light" may have been simply reflected 5-7 cm (2-3 inches) in length, including an inch-long candlelight (Schriks 1982) magnified by memory once "snout," and it has a wing spread of 13 cm (5 inches). It she had returned to the Netherlands to publish her

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