Outsmarting Sharpshooters

The deal with sharpshooters is, you need to flush them out in the open. Typically however, they are adept at hiding on the other side of the stem on which they are standing or hanging. And the truth is, an average amateur entomologist can wear his or her, duda self out chasing a sharpshooter around a stem. That’s because the entomologist must move a great distance while the sharpshooter only has to move a few mms.

Crumby was worn out from playing ring around the rosy with this particular sharpshooter. Dern! OK. Let me catch my breath. Look at that! I have beaten a trail plumb around this goldenrod, and still no picture. Outsmarted by a homop!

Yet then the WG spoke to Crumby out of thin air. Crumby, you nincompoop, hold your camera in one hand and simultaneously use your other hand to spook the sharpshooter out into the open.

No idea about the species or even the genera.