Breathe In And Out...

By ScotNatureBoy

Froghopper - thyme traveller

The wet and unpleasant weather had left me bereft of any decent wildlife photo topic for today's blip. But then I noticed this tiny (3mm long) froghopper on a window ledge where it had apparently fallen out of some cut flowers that my wife had brought in from the garden. The poor wee thing gravitated immediately to a tiny thyme leaf that I had dropped there, as if it were a lifeboat, a green lifeboat on a hard ocean of white. This is the insect, the larvae of which creates bubbles of foam on plant stems for cover and protection, commonly called cuckoo spit. It was a real little cutie! Sorry, I can't identify it to species level for you.

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