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Also known as Cuckoo Spit, Froghopper and Spittle Bug

I don’t know to much about them except this year they seem to be everywhere and they are ruining my blooms and shriveling the leaves!
 

Get rid of them!

I just spent the past hour and a half wondering around my yard with a concoction spraying each one I could find and misting over the larger infestations.

Ingredients:

1 large Rhubard leaf shredded into a medium saucepan with about a litre of water, 6 or 7 garlic cloves skin and all, slightly mashed..boil for about 10 minutes let cool and pour into spray bottle with about a tablespoon of liquid dish detergent.

Then spray! You may need to repeat over the course of a few days. Caution Rhubarb leaves are poisonous to humans and animals if consumed in large quantities. Rhubard acts as a natural pesticide, the garlic deters new bugs and the soap helps to keep it stuck on the leaves!