RE: Red gum Eucalyptus Lerp Psyllid
- To: "Medit-Plants"
- Subject: RE: Red gum Eucalyptus Lerp Psyllid
- From: C* R*
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:25:50 -0800
- Importance: Normal
> Oddly, for some reason, folks have taken to calling
> this insect simply "lerp(s)".
Maybe because "lerp" is so fun to say!
At Foothill College in Los Altos Hills (right by 280 where the great
ceanothus-cercis color combination is found), red gum lerp psyllids have
infested E. camaldulensis for at least a year and a half. The campus has a
large number of these eucalypts, and they're not doing very well after two
seasons of attack. We've heard about the parasitoid wasp up here as well;
hopefully the bio control will be successful.
Cheryl
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Cheryl Renshaw
Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley)
cheryl@elgonquin.com
