Gardeners are being warned over a “harmful” froth which appears on garden plants in the summer months.
Resembling a ball of foam that looks like "spittle", this froth - which clings to leaves and stems of foliage - is made by a bug.
People are being urged not to touch the froth which is deposited by spittlebugs, which coats itself in a ball of foam for protection as it sucks on the sap from a plant for nutrition.