Cuckoo Spit
Cuckoo-spit is the unsightly, foamy white substance sometimes found nestling in leaf joints or around flower buds.
It is actually enclosing a young froghopper beetle, which when fully grown, will hop around roses dining on the sap found in young shoots and buds. It is unlikely to cause any great amount of devastation, other than the occasional wilting bud and rarely are they to be found in great number. The best method of control is to give the cuckoo spit a blast from the hosepipe before the young froghopper becomes mature.
