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rocketcoral.bsky.social
There are SO many froghoppers this year 😍🪲
#bug
May 19, 2026 at 12:28 PM
weeder.bsky.social
Lookin' like your rosemary got some spittlebugs, froghoppers they call 'em, the ol' cuckoo spit
A picture of rosemary with some foamy white stuff on it. Captioned spittlebugs, froghoppers, cuckoo spit philaenus spumarius
February 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
taminf.bsky.social
It's Spring! A cuddle a day keeps your worries away...

#InsectThursday #froghoppers #CercopisVulnerata
April 23, 2026 at 7:37 AM
bogshuffler.bsky.social
Mating froghoppers
August 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
lawnmasternotts.bsky.social
Day 1447 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and a froghopper hiding in its cuckoo spit for you today, living on some lovely and smelly lavender 🤗 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild
Cuckoo spit on lavender, the protection for froghoppers on plants
June 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
tillingtonchum.bsky.social
A beautiful example of the very variable Philaenus spumarius, the Common Froghopper. At Hillier Gardens
#froghoppers #bugs #UKwildlife #ento
July 22, 2024 at 4:39 PM
bobnichollsart.bsky.social
My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2020 I illustrated LOCKED IN TIME, written by @deanrlomax.bsky.social. Here's my painting of a pair of mating Jurassic froghoppers.

This book would make a great Christmas gift! cup.columbia.edu/book/locked-...

#PaleoArt #SciArt #PalaeoArt #Dinosaurs
December 12, 2024 at 2:54 PM
tillingtonchum.bsky.social
A handsome and distinctive froghopper in its finest black and red. A Cercopis vulnerata. Our first of the year.
#froghoppers #bugs #ento #UKwildlife
May 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
debrig63.bsky.social
Frog hopper - I think it's a European alder spittle bug, seen on my woodland walk
#froghoppers #Hopper #insects #invertebrates #Entomology #nature #macro
Frog hopper - I think it's a European alder spittle bug, seen on my woodland walk
June 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
alan678.bsky.social
Cuckoo Spit on some Ribwort Plantain. Absolutely nothing to do with a Cuckoo. It is produced by the nymphs of froghoppers, also called spittlebugs, which feed on plant sap and excrete a frothy substance that protects them from predators and environmental conditions. #photography #EastCoastKin
Frothy Cuckoo Spit on some Ribwort Plantain. Dark green foliage background.
May 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
jacob-wood.bsky.social
Little Dartmouth today. More Oil-beetles (2 Black & 2 Violet), 20+ Red-and-black Froghoppers Cercopis vulnerata, and single Green Hairstreak. Also singing Reed Warbler and Cetti’s Warbler surprise birds on the cliff tops.
Thanks John Walters for help with Oil-beetle ID over the last few weeks!
Black Oil-beetle, Meloe proscarabaeus Red-and-black Froghoppers, Cercopis vulnerata Green Hairstreak Violet Oil-beetle, Meloe violaceus
April 26, 2026 at 8:11 PM
biologicalrecording.co.uk
Quiz time – Spot the odd one out 🐜🔍

Four insects, one different species. Can you spot it? Bonus point if you can say what gives it away 👀

Ready to learn froghoppers inside out? Join our webinar with @josscarr.bsky.social on 23 July 2026. 🌎 🧪

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#froghoppers
March 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
danbowdenpalaeo.bsky.social
A small selection of some of the #insect #fossils I’ve collected from the lacustrine deposits of the #Eocene aged Allenby Formation that outcrops in and around Princeton, British Columbia.

#PaleoSky #FossilFriday #Palaeontology #Paleontology #BCfossils
A collection of Eocene insects from the Allenby Formation. Present in this photo are examples of March Flies, Craneflies, Fungus Gnats, Beetles, several types of wasps, Sawflies, ants, Shield Bugs, Water Striders, Assassin Bugs, Froghoppers (spittle bugs) and a few indeterminate insects.
July 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
christeague1.bsky.social
A few Red & Black Froghoppers in the Wye Valley this morning.
May 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
tillingtonchum.bsky.social
Four froghoppers seen in the garden. Just a few examples of how variable Philaenus spumarius, the Common Froghopper, can be.
#bugs #ento #UKwildlife
June 26, 2024 at 2:25 PM
ajcann.bsky.social
Leafhoppers & allies: identification, ecology and recording - Professor Alan Stewart
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#Bugs #VC55 #Auchenorrhyncha #Insects #Entomology
Leafhoppers and Allies
This talk explores the leafhoppers, planthoppers, froghoppers and treehoppers, collectively known as the Auchenorrhyncha. With over 400 species in Britain, Alan Stewart, the coordinator for the…
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February 20, 2026 at 3:45 PM
samtmugford.bsky.social
Me on the radio this morning talking about UK preparedness for #xylella, froghoppers and the BRIGIT project in the @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social

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Farming Today - 18/03/25 - Hare coursing, xylella and soil microplastics - BBC Sounds
Farmers fear the rise in violent encounters with illegal hare coursers.
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March 18, 2025 at 6:52 PM
theswashbakler.bsky.social
Today’s #BOTW / #BugoftheWeek is the aptly named Spittle Bug.

AKA Cercopidae and Froghoppers

At first I thought this was frog foam, but it turns out to be a bubbly nymph-fest!

#bugs #insects #entomology #travel #outdoors #photography #hiking #science
June 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
charliewestney.bsky.social
Love these little guys!
We did a little project with them on my Ecology degree, to see if the spittle did protect them from predators.. it did!
I think we called them 'froghoppers'? Is that a recognised name too?
TBH spittlebug is a much better name!
July 6, 2026 at 8:44 AM
stanfordjrbp.bsky.social
Today during a hike with @StanfordBioPhD students we noticed these foam balls on #Artemisia #californica (also known as #California #sagebrush). These are likely made by Cuckoo-Spit Spittlebug Froghoppers (Family: Aphrophoridae). #Aphrophoridae #Froghoppers #Spittlebug (1/2)
January 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
biologicalrecording.co.uk
Philaenus spumarius (Common Froghopper) is the world’s most polyphagous insect herbivore, feeding on 1,311 plant species across 117 families.

Join our 23 July entoLEARN with @josscarr.bsky.social on UK froghoppers: ID, ecology & diversity 🌎 🧪

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#froghopper
May 19, 2026 at 9:11 AM
entomodaily.bsky.social
Nature inspires several disciplines, such as biomechanics. Froghoppers' (Cercopoidea) hind leg muscles are shaped and arranged to store and release energy like a catapult. This enables them to accelerate 4x faster and jump 135x higher than fleas relative to body length 😮.
August 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
udon-tea.bsky.social
Takumi: (chilling)

Death metal voice from the other room: tHE CIcADAs aRe a sUpErFAMiLy, ThE CiCaDOIdEa, Of iNsEcTs iN ThE OrDeR HeMiPTErA (tRuE BuGS). tHeY ArE IN tHe sUbORDeR AuCHEnOrRhYnChA, ALoNg WItH SmALLeR JuMpInG BuGs sUcH As lEaFHOpPeRS aNd fRoGHoPPeRs.
June 24, 2026 at 3:14 AM
cicadie.bsky.social
Apparently today is national bubble bath day, so I'd like to give a shoutout to spittlebugs! Also known as froghoppers, they get their name because the nymphs produce this foam to protect themselves. 🫧 #bugsky #hemiptera #insect #spittlebug
A multitude of little white bubbles covering a little segment of a young pine tree's bark and a few needles.
January 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
mpmccune2.bsky.social
Heaving shapes worked their way out of the foam-burnished black bodies with red heads and two orange stripes. "What have you done to the spittlebugs?" Ava asked.
"They've just grown up-they're froghoppers now," a ladybug answered.
A froghopper whistled.
The ladybug blushed. "#Fresh!" #vss365 46
January 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM