... btw the video is great.. Regards,
surajit On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Pankaj Oudhia <[email protected]>wrote: > Link with my name!!!! I missed it, sorry. Just recovered it from junk > mail. > > Neil ji is right. Here is my picture of Spittle bug on Tephrosia. > > http://ecoport.org/ep?SearchType=pdb&PdbID=47854 > > In my region cattle avoid to feed on foliage having spittle bug. If they > consume it accidentally they stop eating anything up to 2 and half days. > Thats why this disease is known as Adhai rog locally. > > Forwarding one more video of cicada for better identification. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EccZwF_f_Kg > > regards > > Pankaj Oudhia > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 4:19 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> Sorry for coming in late. Was at Phansad WLS over the weekend with >> Pravin Kawale. These are not Cicadas but Spittle Bugs / Froghoppers. The >> 'spittle' or 'cuckoo spit' is a frothy mass in which the froghopper larvae >> live cocooned from predators and the elements [including the dessicating >> effect of the sun] while feeding on plant juices. >> With regards, >> Neil Soares. >> >> --- On *Sat, 4/28/12, surajit koley <[email protected]>*wrote: >> >> >> From: surajit koley <[email protected]> >> Subject: [efloraofindia:114975] Cicada on Erythrina : Thanks to Pankaj >> Oudhia from Hooghly >> To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> >> Date: Saturday, April 28, 2012, 10:34 PM >> >> Sir, >> >> I shot these pictures in July, 2009, and frogot completely about it. >> Many many thanks to Pankaj Sir for his comment in another eflora post - >> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/e4PLq3ElbI0 >> which >> gave me the ID of these water spewing insect - >> Cicada<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada>. >> I take this opportunity to upload some more images in this post. >> >> I think the host tree is Indian Coral Tree. I don't have any flower pic >> of this tree. "Cuttings" of this tree is used here, sometimes, to build >> natural fence around ones property/land. Every year those cuttings are >> pruned when they attain a height of about 10 feet or more. That's why i >> have never seen any flower on them. >> >> I was drawn to these trees because i noticed the peculiar water shedding >> phenomenon that have been discussed in the Ganesh Ji's post - >> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/indiantreepix/e4PLq3ElbI0 >> . >> >> Species : 1) *Erythrina* sp. 2) Cicada insect 3) *Polistes* *olivaceus*wasp >> Habit & Habitat : cuttings from tree, roadside fencing >> Date : 09-07-2009 & 12-07-2009 >> Place : Nalikul (Hooghly), WB >> >> Thank you & Regards, >> >> Surajit Koley >> >> >> >
