pine spittlebug

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   North American insect that attacks pines

   Broaderspittle insect

   Part ofAphrophora

Questions about pine spittlebug

What does pine spittlebug mean?

pine spittlebug means "North American insect that attacks pines".

Is pine spittlebug a common word?

pine spittlebug is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.