Spittlebugs, among them Aeneolamia varia, are one of the greatest limits to the production of sugar cane in America. The detection of this species in the Cauca Valley in 2007 generated a series of investigations to confront this problem. One of them was the search for host plant resistance to this pest. Therefore we sought to adapt a methodology for evaluating the attack of spittlebugs on sugar cane. Due to the pest's quarantine situation, Zulia carbonaria, another spittlebug species present in the region, was used instead. For customizing the