“…Here, we reveal that the planthopper saliva can degrade DNA, and that the responsible enzyme is DNase II. In a previous study, the presence of salivary DNase II has been reported in the white‐backed planthopper (Huang et al ., ; Miao et al ., ), brown planthopper (Liu et al ., ; Huang et al ., ), and SBPH (Huang et al ., ). Although the composition of the saliva has been reported in > 10 Aphididae species, no salivary DNase II was found in these phloem‐feeding aphids (van Bel & Will, ), which deserved further investigation.…”