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Lace and Basket Lerps (lerp#6)

Cardiaspina spp

Photo by MartinL
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Field Notes

Description:

This dry flaky scale insect has heavily infested the tree making it appear very pale and dry. I expect this tree will die.

Notes:

Lace and Basket Lerps
Cardiaspina spp

Note also two small brown caterpillars.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
Leuba Ridgway
your spottings of lerps are so interesting - have learnt a lot ! - thanks
Mark Ridgway
It might not die. I had a couple of gums that got totally hit by lerps twice over a few months. I thought they would die but they just dropped all their leaves and grew all new ones. It might have been different lerps though.
MartinL
Lace and Basket Lerps Cardiaspina spp http://www.fzi.uni-freiburg.de/InsectPestKey-long%20version/cardiasp.htm

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PublishedFebruary 2, 2012

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