Blunt-nosed Leafhopper - Cooperative Extension: Cranberries - University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Order: Homoptera || Family: Cicadellidae Scientific Name: Limotettix (=Scleroracus) vaccinii (Van Duzee)

: Blunt-nosed leafhopper nymph in Maine on a standard piece of lined notebook paper – 5/19/2010 (it is about the size of a flea)

: Magnified view of a Blunt-nosed leafhopper nymph in Maine – 5/19/2010

: An adult Blunt-nosed leafhopper resting on a cranberry insect sweep net (in Maine)

: Blunt-nosed leafhopper (on the rim of a 12″-diameter insect sweep net)

: Blunt-nosed leafhopper adult

: Blunt-nosed leafhopper adult

: (Closer View) Blunt-nosed leafhopper adult in Maine (6/25/2015)

: Even Closer View: Blunt-nosed leafhopper adult in Maine (6/25/2015)

: Greatly Magnified View: Blunt-nosed leafhopper adult in Maine (6/25/2015)

: Another magnified view of a Blunt-nosed Leafhopper Adult in Maine

: Blunt-nosed leafhoppers inside a cranberry insect net (in Maine; Year 2009) (The view here is looking down into a 12″-diameter sweep net after only 25 sweeps)

: Closer view of many Blunt-nosed leafhoppers inside a cranberry insect sweep net following 25 sweeps across a Maine cranberry bed in 2009

: Blunt-nosed leafhoppers inside a cranberry insect net (in Maine; July 3rd, 2015) (after 25 sweeps with the net)

: Closer view of the photo at left, with each Blunt-nosed leafhopper circled.

Photos by Charles Armstrong. Not seen in Maine’s modern cranberry era until the 2009 growing season, when it was found at two separate locations, with a large outbreak at one of those locations. Another location saw high numbers of