01.06.18 - Cuckoo Spit and more!

01.06.18 - Conservation & Exploration. Today we spent some more time clearing the rosebay willow herb. While we were picking we spotting lots of different and new things, flowers, leaves and insects. There is now cuckoo spit eveywhere and we kept getting it on our hands. Our teacher knew that something lived in it but couldn't remember what so luckily Murray knew and told us all. It's a little green insect called a frog hopper. We took some back to class and used a magnifying glass to examine it. The spit keeps it moist but when it grows it won't need it any more. That's when it starts hopping like a frog! Don't worry we returned it to it's habitat when we'd all had a good look.