What eats leafhoppers?
Because they are one of the most common and abundant groups of herbivorous insects, leafhoppers are an important food source for vertebrate predators such as birds and lizards, as well as invertebrate predators such as spiders, assassin bugs, wasps, and robber flies. Leafhoppers are also attacked by various parasitic insects such as dryinid and mymarid wasps, epipyropid moths, pipunculid flies, and strepsipterans. Because they feed on plant sap, leafhoppers are not usually susceptible to infection by viral, bacterial, or protozoan pathogens. Thus, entomopathogenic fungi, which do not need to be ingested in order to infect insects, are the most important leafhopper pathogens.
