Re: Red gum Eucalyptus Lerp Psyllid
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Red gum Eucalyptus Lerp Psyllid
- From: d* f*
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 13:38:04 -0800 (PST)
Regarding the Eucalyptus topic, I am also hearing from
other landscape designers that there is a new psyllid
in California called the Red Lerp Psyllid, which has
become quite a pest lately, but have yet to see any of
this in my neighborhood. Apparently it is most common
on Eucalyptus camaldulensis, but there is rumored to
be another species of psyllid also attacking
Eucalyptus citriodora in Southern California. Do
others here in California know what other species it
has been attacking? I hope they find a biological
control for this new pest, or does anyone in Australia
know of one that they could recommend?
Apparently it is common in the Sacramento Valley, has
been found at Stanford University and Ardenwood Farm
in Fremont?(or is it Newark/Union City?), but so far
not found in San Francisco. If anyone is interested
in more info on this pest, go to
www.commercialtree.com/whatsnew.htm, which is info
posted by UC Berkeley on this new pest(at least new
since spring 1998). I hadn't heard of this as being a
problem until just the other day...
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