Host plant with spittle (IMAGE)

American Museum of Natural History

Host plant with spittle

Caption

Frothy spittle mass on one of the meadow spittlebug’s common host plants, the legume Lotus corniculatus. bird's-foot trefoil. The nymph is hidden within.

 

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© Claire Harkin

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