Perhaps every child's favorite bug is the spittle bug, more often known in kid circles as the 'spit bug'. We start seeing them this time of the year. Big gobs of spit stuck on leaves and stems, as if ...

Have you ever been walking in your garden and noticed what appears to be bubbles on your plants? It may appear as if the plants are salivating, but these bubbles do not come from the plants — they ...

The two-lined spittlebug arrived on Hawaii Island in 2016. The tiny black bug is about one centimeter long with two blood-orange stripes across its body and red legs. It’s a leaf hopper that feeds on ...

The meadow spittlebug is no stranger to superlatives: it is the highest jumping insect proportional to body size and has the largest measured sucking power of any bug -- strong enough that it could ...

HILO County, state and federal agencies are still seeking solutions to an invasive insect that threatens much of the Big Island s livestock industry. Franny Brewer, communications director for the Big ...

New research fueled in part by citizen scientists reveals that the meadow spittlebug—known for the foamy, spit-like urine released by its nymphs—can feed on at least 1,300 species of host plants, more ...

At top, cows walk through Big Island ranchland that has been overtaken by invasive grass and weeds after spittlebugs destroyed their grazing grass. “This bill is really about getting ahead of the ...