A method of dissolving the protective spittle masses of frog hopper nymphs

ABSTRACT DURING the course of biochemical investigations into the nature and composition of the spittle masses produced by cercopid nymphs (_Philaenus spumarius_ L. and _Neophilaenus_ sp.)

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