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I have no idea what this is. This looks like hardened cotton candy. It was located on the end of a hibiscus twig.
tropical dry forest in NW Costa Rica 7 weeks into the 6 month dry season.
Spotted on Jan 9, 2012
Submitted on Jan 11, 2012
12 Comments
Thanks guys, I will check them out!
t looks very dense for spitle bug foam (even dried), should not we see, some bubble. It also looks a bit like a gall which some fungi make. i find the surface to smooth for foam.!!!
looks like scale to me...
Great recommendation leter. this branch is not over water.
What about the nest of the Foam Nest Frog which lays its egg in a foam nest on a branch overhanging water so that the hatchlings can fall into the water and start their life.
Maybe this is a spittle bug Karen. The climate here is very dry now and maybe the foam dried up into a hard surface. It is likely that the brown spots on the foam are dust. We live in front of a heavily transited dirt road and have trade winds passing through which would have transferred the dust onto the foam before it was dried out.
Raro
Looks like Wax Scale from the picture...http://www.invasive.org/browse/subinfo.cfm?sub=13064
Strange structure.
does spittlebug foam harden?
I will get one in the coming days Ashish. I, unfortunately, have returned to work.
Do you have side view of this organism then upload to this spotting.