I was looking at the damage it caused to my sunflowers, and didn't really look at it until it started skittering away. Looks like a chunk of leaf litter, which is exactly what I thought it was because I use the free leaf mulch the town gives away. It's a bit less than a centimeter long, I think, and almost as tall, but slim side-to-side. Thought I saw it flutter wings once, but surely it would have flown off if it could, right?
I don't care much about dissuading it from my sunflowers, since I've only ever seen the one - it's more that it's such a cool little guy that I really want to know what it is.
CLOSED: The heck is this leaf looking thing???
It's a treehopper (family Membracidae) - see https://i.pinimg.com/originals/46/14/b0/4614b01f9538fefce21e9aa9fed1246b.jpg for an example (Entylia carinata)
As flapdoodle said above...it's Entylia carinata
https://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/14059/
https://bugguide.net/node/view/647417/bgimage
Gross-cool. Thanks for responding so quickly, Flapdoodle and DWMike. My dad, when he saw the pic, said he used to see something like these all the time growing up in Michigan. His version looked just like the thorns on the bushes and shrubs they favored, and you couldn't tell they were there at all until the whole lot started marching along.
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