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Tube spittle bug

Chaetophyes sp

Description:

Green headed bug is one of the species that produce crusty tubes on tips of branches and curious spittle on shrubs in summer.

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3 Comments

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 11 years ago

very nice. Going by your notes, I think I found a male...will be putting him up soon.

MartinL
MartinL 11 years ago

There's a lot of them around at the moment Argy Bee.
There's two colors including the lighter one I saw yesterday.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/156...
Not sure if thes are the same species but I do know that the males are 'all blacks'.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

So that's what they look like... quite cute.

MartinL
Spotted by
MartinL

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Jan 12, 2011
Submitted on Oct 21, 2012

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