Leaf Footed Bugs  
This is a really neat looking bug. Check out the leaf looking back legs!
leaf footed bug
leaf footed bug
These were on a fiddlewood in Broward County. They have the white zig-zag stripe of the invasive one, but not the two yellow spots.

You can see pictures and read all about the invasive one on their UF/IFAS Pest Alerts page.

mating leaf footed bugs
This next pair was in Palm Beach County. You can see that they were very busy making more bugs. They're perched on the fruit of my Passiflora suberosa vine. I was picking the berries to get seeds, but I left this particular berry on the vine:
mating leaf footed bugs
mating leaf footed bugs
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