While beat-sheeting lots of trees this year looking for cats, a number of other arthropods would inevitably show up, including spiders, walking sticks, mantids, and treehoppers (fam. Membracidae). Some of these treehoppers were too cool not to setup for some photography.
Microcentrus perditus
Platycotis vittata nymphs
A Thousand Acres of Silphiums 