Adult treehoppers lay their eggs on the inside of plants, allowing the young treehopper to feed by sucking on the plant sap. The treehopper spends most of its life living around ants, because like the aphid, it produces the honeydew. Ants and treehoppers cooperate with one another because as ants eat the honeydew that the treehoppers produce, the ants keep the treehoppers from harmful creatures.

The most likely places to find treehoppers are in open areas where there are less insects to bother them. The other way to find them is around groups of ants. Some species of Treehopper are harmful to plants, but most are beneficial and kill off weeds.