Order:  Hemiptera, (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies) Suborder: Auchenorrhyncha (Free-living Hemipterans) Superfamily:  Cercopoidea (Spittlebugs) Family:  Aphrophoridae (Spittlebugs) Home      Insects       Details         Photo Details - ©Nicky Davis Photographed in grasses at Mercur, Tooele County, Utah 20 September 2018 Bugguide identified, Ken Wolgemuth Name explanation:  nymphs surround themselves with a frothy mass that resembles spittle.  Life cycle:  After nymphs molt for final time, the adults leave the mass and move about actively.