Botanical-Cuckoo Spit-Froghopper Nymphs.
After thinking I wasn’t going to see any this year, the little baby froghoppers are very busy making their tents of spit on the Willowherb. I didn’t disturb due to how much business was taking place but checking three days later they had gone.
“Cuckoo spit is produced by the nymphs of sap sucking insects called froghoppers. It appears in spring at a time when the familiar call of cuckoos can be heard"
Go HERE to learn all about Froghoppers. I hope they come back next week.
