Gardening: Spittle Bugs
Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
English - November 16, 2018 23:10 - 4 minutes - 3.91 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNews Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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There are about 2400 species of spittlebugs or froghoppers worldwide and about 15 in New Zealand
Adults are capable of jumping many times their height and length, giving the group their common name, but they are best known for their plant-sucking nymphs which encase themselves in foam in springtime.
Listen above as gardening expert Ruud Kleinpaste speaks to Jack Tame