Froghoppers

Word FROGHOPPERS
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Definitions and meanings of "Froghoppers"

What do we mean by froghoppers?

Any of various small insects of the superfamily Cercopoidea that feed on plant sap and whose larvae produce cuckoo spit.

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The word "froghoppers" in example sentences

A: It is the immature stages of spittlebugs (adults are called froghoppers) that produce the foam. ❋ Richard Fagerlund (2010)

Spittlebugs -- also known as froghoppers -- use a catapult-like mechanism to achieve their jumping prowess. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cuckoo-spit—the frothy protection that insect froghoppers secrete around themselves—drips onto me from lather peaks like beaten egg-white that smears the joints of the twigs and branches. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)

Here, the Bembeces [digger wasps] were sweeping the threshold of their burrows, flinging a curve of dust behind them; the Languedocian Sphex was dragging her Ephippigera [a green grasshopper] by the antennae; a Stizus [a hunting wasp] was storing her preserves of Cicadellae [froghoppers]. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

There are further parallels with the jumping mechanisms of froghoppers and the design of composite bows used in archery. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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