The new moon that rises on June 6 presides over a period of many of the lowest daylight tides of the year. This first batch of extra low tides occurs in the early mornings.
Many shrubs, particularly coyote brush, are festooned with blobs of white froth that look like human spit. Nestled within these blobs are the nymph and adult stages of annulate spittlebugs, protected from heat and predators. The blobs are made as…