The froghopper has amazing powers of suction, scientists found. It also produces astonishing amounts of urine. By Sabrina Imbler A meadow froghopper urinates so much that it could drown itself.
To tap an unlikely source of nutrition, insects small enough to sit on a pencil eraser have to suck harder than any known creature. Philaenus spumarius froghoppers pierce plants with their mouthparts ...
A fossil arthropod entombed in 100-million-year-old Burmese amber has been identified as a new genus and species of froghopper, known today as an insect with prodigious leaping ability in adulthood ...