The twolined spittlebug sucks nutrient-rich juices from grass leaves and roots, and in highly infested areas has caused nearly 100% die-back of certain grasses important to livestock, said Mark Thorne ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 92, No. 10 (Oct., 2005), pp. 1708-1713 (6 pages) Antagonists can play a role in sexual system evolution if tolerance or resistance is sex-dependent. Our understanding ...

In 2016, a rancher on Hawaii island saw a large swath of his green pastures quickly turn brown. Surveys revealed a new invasive pest and even more damage: the two-lined spittlebug (Prosapia bicincta) ...

Have you ever been walking in your garden and noticed what appears to be bubbles on your plants? It may appear as if the plants are salivating, but these bubbles do not come from the plants — they ...

Help is on the way for Big Island ranchers fighting an invasive bug decimating pasture land in North and South Kona. “The impact this little bug is having on pastures … is catastrophic,” said Mark ...

About this issue Abstract Spittlebugs are pests that affect forage plants in tropical America, causing damage to such plants and causing significant annual losses in milk and meat production. One of ...

Spittlebugs are known for the frothy spittle mass they produce while feeding on plants. Spittlebug nymphs pierce the plant stems and suck plant juices. They feed on a variety of plants like ornamental ...

Q: Many plants in my perennial bed recently have been covered in a white, foam-like substance in the morning. I also have seen this substance on some creeping junipers and even in the lawn. At first, ...

Every spring when I go into the garden to pick flowers, my fingers touch something slimy. It's spittlebug season. For years I wondered what that goo was -- I knew it was caused by an insect but had ...

Have you ever come across what looks like a blob of spit clinging to a plant in your garden? If so, then you’ve had the “pleasure” of meeting a spittlebug. While finding the white, bubbly blobs of ...