[1] These froghoppers inhabit dry, sunny slopes and herbaceous rich clearings.

The adults of Cercopis, just after getting free from the nymphal exuvia, show pink or whitish markings instead of blood-red.

Cercopis sanguinolenta also has a few black spots on the ventral plates of the connexivum, the lateral border of the abdomen.

[6][7] Adults can be seen in May through July or August[2] on herbaceous plants and shrubs, mainly in meadows and woodland edges.

[2] Larvae live surrounded by their own secretions in a sort of foam nest and suck the juices on the roots of the host plants.