Leafhopper

I don't always "approve" of the common names given to insects, but in my opinion the plant-sucking relative of the cicada has been given a perfect name: LEAFHOPPER, very fitting for this tiny creature that jumps from one leaf to another with great speed and precision. A group of scientists in Bristol and Cambridge that lost sleep while pondering over leafhoppers' incredible jumping skills found out that when leafhoppers jump from a smooth surface their propulsive hind legs do not slip at all as they've got tiny soft pad-like structures on their hind tarsi, which contacts the surface briefly (approx. 3 ms) during the acceleration phase of a jump. Therefore their jumps are speedy and directional. Chapeau to the precision of the technicians involved in the high speed video analysis and chapeau to the leafhoppers for evolving a system that makes them so adapted to their environment.