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Re: foamy stuff on my plants

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 Sounds like Spit Bugs (don't know scientific name)! They are relatively harmless and if you mix a little soap and water they'll spray right off. The spit is actually the casing that holds down the eggs.
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 00:42:36    Al782 wrote:
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>I just discovered little patches of foamy stuff on leaves and stocks of 
>plants.  I resembles(if you'll pardon the expression)spittle.  Does anyone 
>know what it is and or how to get rid of it and the critter that created it?
>It isn't tent worms---we had those a couple of times before.  
>Oh, incase no one answered the question about the plants whose leaves were 
>turning into green lace--I had that one year and the extention service said 
>it was leaf miners.  They get betwee the top and bottom of the leaves and 
>suck out everything in between.  The extention service offered no organic 
>solution-- the suggested diazinon.  I used my homemade hot pepper, tobacco 
>infusion(water which I soaked tobacco in for several days) and dish soap and 
>it did the trick for me.  I just dilute it and strain it and spray it in the 
>cool part to the day.  Sorry I have never been exact about the measurements.
>Bonnie C mt.zone 5  taking her hat off to anyone who can tell me what to do 
>about those very poor mannered critters expectorating on my garden.
>
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