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💥🦗🚀SHARPSHOOTER PEE POLL💥🦗🚀
🕑 Added 2024-03-01 23:45:00 +0000 UTCHey Deep Peeps! Sharpshooter insects love sucking down plant sap so much so they had to evolve a special way to let out all that juice! What surprises you the most about the unusual way these insects survive and thrive?
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A blue-green sharpshooter (Graphocephala atropunctata) sucks the sap from a leaf of basil. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)
Blue-green sharpshooters have translucent nymphs seen here on the underside of a grapevine. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)
A ball of pee forms on the anal stylus of a blue-green sharpshooter. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)
A ball of pee flies off of the anal stylus of a blue-green sharpshooter) while it drinks sap and mates with another blue-green sharpshooter. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)
