Julie wrote:

Noydb wrote:

I have some bug in my garden that is making some sort of foam on my
strawberry plants and a few others. It is still liquid and doesn't appear
to be hardening or changing colors and so on. Just clear bubbles.

Can anyone identify it?

The aptly named spittle bug. See he
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/greenli...gl9903.17.html

They'll be gone in a few weeks.
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Julie
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Thanks Julie. I had continued googling and found that. Since I don't have
the density needed for control to be advisable (1 bug per stem) and since
this is on food crops (control is burning in hayfields or systemic
pesticides in non-food / non-fodder grasses) and since I use organic
methods exclusively, I think I'll just ignore them.

I needed to know what they were, though, so I could figure out what (if
anything) to do about them. I'll burn the strawberry beds this fall with a
light straw fire so the spittle bug population should be kept within
reasonable bounds. I didn't see any natural enemies in my google search.