The ones with a banded brown abdomen are nymphs (immatures), which live encased in a froth ('cuckoo spit' or 'frog spit') they produce from the sap they suck; the white-striped one visible in the shadows in one image is the adult, which abandons the froth. The nymphs are known as spittlebugs and the adults as froghoppers.
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