Perhaps every child's favorite bug is the spittle bug, more often known in kid circles as the 'spit bug'. We start seeing them this time of the year. Big gobs of spit stuck on leaves and stems, as if ...

Perhaps if I worked at it, I could think of a more distasteful word with which to start a column, but I sort of doubt it. But, let’s forge on. As a kid, I remember seeing globs of white, slimy foam on ...

A common farm pest appears to have leapfrogged over the flea to claim the unofficial title as the world's best jumper. British researchers say experiments show the spittle bug -- a tiny, green insect ...