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Sugar Lerp -2
Glycaspis sp
-37.8828, 145.296
Field Notes
Description:
A small (5mm) conical sugary crystalline structure with an exit hole on one side. Found with few other such structures on teh upper side of a gum (eucalyptus) leaf.
Notes:
these lerps are formed by excretions of psyllid nymphs ( plant lice). the nymphs hide under these sugary covers through development.
refer to previous spotting for square shaped lerp made by the same species of lerp insect.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8936230
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Photographed
PublishedFebruary 17, 2012
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