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[T.F.Student 0]

But who is it?

[skycat 6,173]

It looks like a 'cuckoo spit' thingy (with a parasite on board?) but I don't know the correct name for it.

[T.F.Student 0]

You are right Skycat :clapping: ...Its called a Froghopper

I would love to know what the parasite is though...anyone any idea

[mole trapper 1,693]

The froghoppers, cuckoo spit nymph, or the superfamily Cercopoidea, are a group of Hemipteran insects, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha. Traditionally, most of this superfamily was considered a single family, Cercopidae, but this family has been split into three separate families for many years now: the Aphrophoridae, Cercopidae, and Clastopteridae. More recently, the family Epipygidae has been removed from the Aphrophoridae. These families are best known for the nymph stage, which produces a cover of frothed-up plant sap resembling spit; the nymphs are therefore commonly known as spittlebugs, or spit bugs, and their froth as cuckoo spit or snake spit. The final family in the group, Machaerotidae, is known as the tube spittlebugs because the nymphs live in calcareous tubes, rather than producing froth as in the other families.

[T.F.Student 0]

You know your spit MT

[mole trapper 1,693]

You know your spit MT

 

 

, no i just know where to look on the net. :whistle:

[T.F.Student 0]

Really ...I never would of guessed