I think but am not sure that mating was in progress. When I pulled the branch nearer, they both hopped/flew away.
I saw several molts on the large mulberry tree, did not manage to spot any live hoppers. Neat that it pops up on Computer Vision.
Collected on mulberry, for Dr. Laura Sullivan-Beckers
On mulberry. Collected for Dr. Laura Sullivan-Beckers. On a rainy day; saw it crawl around to underside of the branch
On a very low branch of a very large mulberry tree
Presumably male due to dark color. In third picture, note there was another sitting not far away on the same branch, but that one flew off as soon as I disturbed the branch.
First pair of photos and second pair of photos separated by 5 minutes; last photo, when I returned fifteen minutes later the female started to crawl and dragged the male along (see last picture)