Sara and I took a quick weekend trip out to the Okanagan to meet up with our family from Alberta. I took an hour or so one evening to take some insect shots. I almost didn’t notice this little guy until I remembered that Spotted Knapweed doesn’t have thorns. The “thorn” is actually a projection of the pronotum (the first body segment of the thorax). These projections are characteristic of the Membracidae.