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Bubbly Foam – Froghoppers

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Have you seen the little bead of foam is on plants? and wonder what’s that?
It is a little bug called a Spittlebug and is the Nymph stage of a Froghopper.

Spittlebugs feed on watery sap from plants and then excrete bubbly foam to create a protective fortress around themselves. Later, they emerge as adult froghoppers.

Bubbly Foam on plant that usually I spotted it, but I don’t know what’s that and how it was formed.

The froghoppers, or the superfamily Cercopoidea, are a group of hemipteran insects in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha. Adults are capable of jumping many times their height and length, giving the group their common name, but they are best known for their plant-sucking nymphs which encase themselves in foam in springtime. Wikipedia

Bubbly Foam on Plant

Luckily I spotted this view, I saw adult froghopper inside the bubbly foam, I think it’s ready to emerge.

froghopper inside the foam

Close up view of froghopper inside the bubbly foam.

Close up view of the froghopper

Here is the Adult Froghopper – Ptyelinellus praefractus

2 COMMENTS

  1. Are these foam poisonous?
    I found these foam on my Okra budding areas.
    How to solve this issue on Okra plants
    What attracts the bug to the plant?

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