Warning over strange froth people are spotting on their garden plants

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UK homeowners are being warned to look out for an unusual froth that can appear in your garden during the summer months. Since the country has been experiencing warmer weather, people have begun spotting the strange substance on their garden plants.

The froth can often be seen clumped onto plant stems or in a patch off grass and typically looks like ball of froth of foam.

Homeowners are being urged to keep their eyes peeled and report any sightings of it as it has the potential to be harmful. The warning has come as the froth could be linked to the spread of an deadly plant disease which can harm native species, reports Yorkshire Live. READ MORE: Inside Michael Owen's huge £4 million mansion where ITV Love Island star Gemma Owen lives The spittle, as it's known, is made by an insect called a spittlebug, which produces the unusual substance that then gets left behind on plants and in long grass.

The spittlebug coats itself in a ball of foam for protection as it sucks on the sap from a plant for nutrition. The red and black creatures' offspring, also known as froghoppers, then hatch on a plant which has the leftover ball of foam.