Remove Cuckoo Spit from plants to help prevent later damage.

Cuckoo spit, she thought, watching a working man emerging from a mining cage with an inappropriate smile on his blackened face.

She said it was delicious but she didn't like the foam because it always reminds her of cuckoo spit.

Developing young create a frothy mass commonly known as cuckoo spit on plants in the early spring and summer to hide from predators, such as ants.

Some, such as froghoppers ('cuckoo spit') and flea beetles, cause little more than cosmetic damage and will be tolerated by healthy plants.

A rosemary milk foam, suspended like cuckoo spit between the artichokes, made it look, beautifully, like an aerial view of a forest clearing in winter.

"Essex Kiss" hymns the poet's home county with its "Chewing gum and whelks, a whiff/ of diesel, crocus, cuckoo spit."

Bring me back some snakewort, cuckoo spit, a medium eelskin, three fine strips of willow bark... oh, there's so much to remember, I'd better write it all down for you.

The effects of El Bulli are everywhere, as, anywhere, anything from a fishcake to a comedy burger starts to be served up with a foam like cuckoo spit on it.

The most common sighting is during early summer as cuckoo spit on stems and leaves when the nymphs secrete the protective froth over themselves as they feed on leaves and young shoots.

These families are best known for the nymph stage, which produces a cover of frothed-up plant sap resembling saliva; the nymphs are therefore commonly known as spittlebugs and their froth as cuckoo spit, frog spit or snake spit.

Your folks are sweating toad spit.