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Slate River,Ont. Canada

Found what looks like a ball of spit on one of my secondary leaves.There was a small green bug inside.Is this a grasshopper or something to worry about?

7/30/2013 4:11:38 PM

Germany

It´s a baby of a so-called froghopper (or spittlebug)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DOhb6_Sw8hk/ToiJL4meLZI/AAAAAAAAAUc/NjGnkChzyfY/s1600/Froghopper_spittlebug.jpg

They will drink some juice from your plant, but they don´t seriously hurt the plant, because they do not drink much and they do not appear in such hazardous amounts as aphids do.

Nothing to worry about.

7/30/2013 4:18:02 PM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Since on topic of finding stuff on leaves. I found a half of a crawdad on a leaf the otherday.:)

7/30/2013 5:47:24 PM

Germany

Hi yardman, in this particular case it seems like someone had indeed tried to spit something onto your leaf (while eating such a little crispy guy), or someone had tried to find an alternative to foliar fish fertilizer.

7/31/2013 3:00:48 AM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Lol pumpking.yep i assumed it was a bird cause of the poop on the leaf .probli pirched on my shade frame.thought id add commit just for the look ppl got when reading :).how ever i do have a gallon of crawdad emulsion on the porch just to see what it mite do hopeing the softshells& cartlidge break down.

7/31/2013 7:44:31 AM