Click on this photo to get an enlargement so you can easily distinguish juvenile from adult. The stripes on the bodies of juveniles are perpendicular to the body axis, while the adults are either without stripes and instead are olive drab with yellow or orange spots or have red and white stripes running parallel to the body axis, a remarkable change n appearance that happens during the 5th and last molt.
Besides checking daily on the lone oak branch in my driveway hosting these treehoppers, I generally walk around downtown looking at flowers that people are watering and otherwise caring for, mostly cultivated varieties that I don't now as well as I do the wild ones. Below, I think, is a cone flower, or
Rudbeckia, that lives in a box in front of one of the new charter school sites. Pleasant to see the bright colors when nearly everything else is turning brown.
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