“If you’re brave, you can take a stick or your finger, move the spit away and you can see the bugs,” Zack said. “As long as you don’t pull it out of there, it will just produce more spit ...

Perhaps every child's favorite bug is the spittle bug, more often known in kid circles as the 'spit bug'. We start seeing them this time of the year. Big gobs of spit stuck on leaves and stems ...

Reassuringly, it's not spit at all, but foam made by a harmless insect called a froghopper - also known as a spittlebug. If you look closely, you will see a delicate, green baby froghopper nestled ...

The thin spit (which is still 50,000 times more viscous than human saliva), helps the tongue hit and release from bugs. When it hits a bug, the tongue deforms and its contact area becomes bigger.