Ever since I was a little boy, I have seen the froth of spittlebugs on plants, but I had never taken the time to search through the froth to see what was inside. Last Sunday, I took a leisurely walk ...

Spotting foamy bubbles on your lawn might look alarming, but it could be less of a problem than you think. Here's what that strange sudsy stuff actually means.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out how a spittlebug got its name. Robert Brown sent this photo of a spittlebug nest on a goldenrod stem. The nest that looks like foamy spit, surely is an ...

Meadow spittlebugs (Philaenus spumarius), also called froghoppers, suck sap from plants with straw-like mouthparts, picking up bacteria along the way and becoming vectors for plant diseases. Most ...

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 ...

At the mouth of Cowee Creek, sometime in mid-June, we’d found a vigilant pair of black oystercatchers, presumably with a nest nearby. A couple of weeks later, a small group of hikers stopped at the ...

About a year ago, I noticed small clumps of white bubbles attached to the green stems of California sagebrush (Artemisia californica) on the coastal bluffs in La Jolla. This year, in Riverside, the ...

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 ...