MatisIsLoveMantisIsLyf
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So, how do you ezactly breed and keep spittlebugs? I've been seeing quite a few recently. Ibe been told they are small versions of cicadas.
Spittlebugs?
- Thread starter MatisIsLoveMantisIsLyf
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Find an appropriate host plant (whatever plant you are finding the bugs on should be fine.) Dig it up and stick it in a pot. Keep the plant watered and in a place where it gets adequate sunlight. I like to put potted plants in pop-up mesh butterfly enclosures, but you could also plant it directly in a glass or plastic enclosure if you have one that's big enough. Then just add your bugs and they should do fine.
It's been my experience that plant-feeding hemiptera do much better on live potted plants then on cut greenery. Once the plants have been cut, the sap must pretty much stop flowing - or at least congeal or slow down significantly. Leaf chewers like grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles, and phasmids, on the other hand, do just fine with cut branches in a vase or jar of water.
It's been my experience that plant-feeding hemiptera do much better on live potted plants then on cut greenery. Once the plants have been cut, the sap must pretty much stop flowing - or at least congeal or slow down significantly. Leaf chewers like grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles, and phasmids, on the other hand, do just fine with cut branches in a vase or jar of water.