Go Read Something

Some of you may remember my post several months ago asking for help in identifying an interesting creature I discovered in my yard. No one was able to tell me what the little booger was and so I had lost hope of ever finding out what it was. I could only assume that it was a new species that I had discovered and that no one would ever see one again.

I admit that I was wrong. I discovered only minutes ago that it is in fact a species that has been discovered previously and I found this out while reading Clara's goodnight book to her. You really can learn things by reading books, even children's books.

Chris and I put Clara to bed tonight and I was reading The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle. I turn the page and before I start reading, I see the picture and exclaim "That's the bug from the yard! I know what I'm blogging about tonight." Sure enough, the page reads "Hi! bubbled a spittlebug, slurping in a sea of froth." Chris was laughing at me because I was so excited. I looked for a picture of the illustration to put up, but I couldn't find one.

The spittlebug is also known as a frogghopper. The one I found was a nymph and they only do the bubble thing when they're in the nymph stage. One website I went to said that most gardeners have never seen one. So there you go. Mystery solved. Now go read a book and learn something new.