{"id":202,"date":"2020-09-11T16:00:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/?p=202"},"modified":"2020-09-11T10:07:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T14:07:07","slug":"two-lined-spittlebugprosapia-binicta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/2020\/09\/two-lined-spittlebugprosapia-binicta\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-lined Spittlebug,(Prosapia binicta)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the Labor Day weekend, I began the process of ridding my lawn of purple and yellow nutsedge as well as kyllinga.\u00a0 I was in the backyard hand-pulling the yellow nutsedge while carefully trying to avoid any missed dog bombs when I came across this beautiful spittle mass.\u00a0 If I had one, this would have been the perfect time to say hold my beer while I take a picture of this.\u00a0 So, my first thought wasn\u2019t that I had spittlebugs, but rather this will make a good blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: James Morgan, University of Georgia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In recent years I have gotten phone calls from clients who while cutting the grass, noticed these flying bugs with orange stripes.  Two days ago, a resident came into my office with a bag full of insects which she had collected from the neighbor\u2019s pool.  Yes, it contained several of these black bugs with orange stripes across their wings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two-lined spittlebug, Prosapia bicincta, <\/em>is an important insect pest of turfgrass and very active in early summer.  There are two generations per year.  Although it attacks all turfgrass species, centipedegrass is most susceptible to an infestation.  They don\u2019t just feed on grass either.  Ornamentals, especially hollies, and some perennials are also subject to attack from spittlebugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nymphs attach to the leaf blade and immediately start to make this foam-like froth, white spittle mass to protect them from predators as they are feeding.\u00a0 The adults are about \u00bc- to \u00bd-in long, smoky brown to black in color, broadly oval, convex with prominent eyes.\u00a0 They have two bright orange stripes across their wings.\u00a0 Because the adults seem to jump around they are sometimes called froghoppers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Clint Waltz, University of Georgia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The damage to the lawn can be confused with water deficiency symptoms. At first the grass blades may turn yellow and then brown or purple.  Eventfully, there will be a complete wilting of the stems and leaves, ultimately causing the death of the grass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Management options include reducing thatch or insecticide applications.\u00a0 Contact your local county Extension office for pesticide recommendations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources: Landscape Pest Management, UGA Extension; Two-lined Spittlebug: Biology and Management in Turfgrass<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the Labor Day weekend, I began the process of ridding my lawn of purple and yellow nutsedge as well as kyllinga.\u00a0 I was in the backyard hand-pulling the yellow nutsedge while carefully trying to avoid any missed dog bombs when I came across this beautiful spittle mass.\u00a0 If I had one, this would have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/doughertyhort\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}