Photographer Andreas Kay (1963-2019) has spent years photographing beautiful and strange insects in Ecuador like this one above.
The insect that looks like a walking piece of popped popcorn is the flatid planthopper nymph. It is covered in protective waxy filaments that makes it look like a fluff of cloud, or to our eyes, a popped kernel!
There are about 12,500 known species of planthoppers, which get their names from the leaf-like appearance of the adult insect and their ability to "hop" to move around. They feed by sucking sap from plants, and some species are considered pests as they can produce a sugary secretion called honeydew that promote the growth of mold on plants.