1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Cuckoo-spit

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23771621911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 7 — Cuckoo-spit

CUCKOO-SPIT, a frothy secretion found upon plants, and produced by the immature nymphal stage of various plant-lice of the familiar Cercopidae and Jassidae, belonging to the homopterous division of the Hemiptera, which in the adult condition are sometimes called frog-hoppers.