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Tuesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>31</strong> <strong>2017</strong> 17<br />
Backyard Critters<br />
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With<br />
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the horizon<br />
spittlebugs<br />
are<br />
becoming<br />
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common<br />
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Bugs that spit<br />
Mike Bowie is<br />
an ecologist<br />
who specialises<br />
in entomology<br />
(insects and other<br />
invertebrates).<br />
Each week he<br />
introduces a new species<br />
found in his backyard at<br />
Lincoln. His column aims to<br />
raise public awareness of<br />
biodiversity, the variety of living<br />
things around us<br />
WITH THE days warming up, spittlebugs<br />
are becoming common around the<br />
garden.<br />
The green coloured nymphs excrete<br />
a very conspicuous frothy, spit-like<br />
foam that is used as protection against<br />
predators and dessication by the sun.<br />
The white spittle is produced from a<br />
gland at its rear and bubbles are created<br />
by farting into the liquid. The spittle also<br />
helps to regulate temperature extremes<br />
and has an acrid taste, which deters insect<br />
predators.<br />
Globally, there are about 2400 species<br />
of spittlebugs or froghoppers, but in New<br />
Zealand only 15 species are known. They<br />
are not considered serious pests of the<br />
garden.<br />
Spittlebugs have been reported on a<br />
large range of hosts, including species<br />
like parsley, lavender, carnations,<br />
chrysanthemums, roses, strawberries and<br />
grass.<br />
The most common species in New<br />
Zealand is the meadow spittlebug<br />
(philaenus spumarius), an exotic species<br />
first recorded in 1960.<br />
The frog-faced adults are six to 10mm<br />
long, tan, mottled brown to black in<br />
colour, and can jump 70cm when<br />
disturbed. Relative to body weight, this<br />
jumping effort is better than fleas and<br />
equivalent to humans jumping 180m.<br />
WOW: Spittlebugs<br />
produce a white spittle<br />
and bubbles are created<br />
when it farts into the<br />
liquid. (Below) – What<br />
spittlebugs look like as<br />
nymphs.<br />
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