https://extension.umn.edu/yard-and-garden-insects/spittlebugs
https://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000006346172/how-the-spittlebug-builds-its-bubbly-fortress.html On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:55 AM J.M. Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Bimal ji. > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Bimal Sar kar <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 08:46 > Subject: OOTHECA ( EGG CASE ) ON LUDWIGIA OCTOVALVIS > To: > > > In my childhood I have seen froth like substance on some plants. Elders > used to tell the substance is the spit of Monitor Lizard and is poisonous. > I heard another story narrated by an old lady. As per that story the > substance is the spit of ghost ( BHOOT ). But literature says it is the egg > case of some insect ( may be praying mantis ). Other day I saw this > substance on a Balsam plant. In the attached image ootheca is on Ludwigia > octovavis. > > > -- > With regards, > J.M.Garg > > 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> > > Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia > <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia>. > > For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, > please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group > <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in the > world- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or > Efloraofindia > website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a species > database of more than 13,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which more than > 1,70,000 images are directly displayed). > > The whole world uses my Image Resource > <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a > thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. > (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). You can also use them for free as > per Creative Commons license attached with each image. > > Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of > India'. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFBYNng5h8_9wModKMCj9m__XD1kwE%2B8jtb846F7ADcmOQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CA%2BiuSFBYNng5h8_9wModKMCj9m__XD1kwE%2B8jtb846F7ADcmOQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CACeZjXj4RfJ9y9T5RCQN9OvVsXTmWiHz%2BkhsAy6xMBSrNN9ViA%40mail.gmail.com.
