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LIFE AND HER CHILDREN. 
grub (c) which has given out this froth in bubbles 
from its tail, to shelter it from the burning sun and 
hide it from the birds as it sits and sucks the sap. 
But in the autumn the " spit " if not dried up will be 
empty, for the insect after losing its last covering-skin 
Fig. 70. 
C, Cuckoo-spit insect* coming out of the froth. F, The same insect 
when its wings are grown, and it is known as the Frog-hopper. 
P, Red Cabbage-Bug, t 
has come out with wings a little brown frog-hopper 
(F, Fig. 70) which pats down upon your hand, and is 
gone again in a moment before you have time to 
examine the wonderful beauty of its wings. Then, 
again, there are the numberless little scaly plant-lice 
which spend their lives flattened against the stalks 
* Aphrophora sputttaria. 
t Pentatonia (Strackia) ornata. 
