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Most sap-sucking insects drill into a nutrient-dense plant tissue called phloem, but spittlebugs specialize in the much more dilute sap from another tissue, xylem.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 6, 2023

Thompson, who has been studying and documenting host plants of spittlebugs for 50 years, set out to do that along with collaborators in the United Kingdom.

From Science Daily • Oct. 4, 2023

I also learn that while spittlebugs feed on many plants, they create little damage.

From Salon • Aug. 8, 2021

Spread by spittlebugs and other sap-sucking insects, the resulting disease has no treatment and it is said to have cut Italy's olive harvest to its lowest level in 25 years.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2020

These ancient froghoppers, or adult spittlebugs, lived about 165 million years ago and died apparently doing what comes naturally.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2013