{"id":5572,"date":"2013-06-15T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T07:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greensideup.ie\/?p=5572"},"modified":"2014-09-27T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T13:36:00","slug":"cuckoo-spit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/cuckoo-spit\/","title":{"rendered":"Does a Cuckoo Spit? Surely not…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Several years ago I recall seeing lots of white, bubbly ‘spit’ on flowers, leaves and stems and wondering what it was. On enquiry I found it was “cuckoo spit”, which didn’t really help my over active imagination as however hard I tried, I couldn’t picture a bird that’s synonymous with spring with such a bad habit? Surely this couldn’t be?<\/p>\n