#psylloidea

[rattyexplores]

Very small insect, possibly a Psylloid.

Unknown, Psylloidea

01/06/22

[nunoxaviermoreira]

Calvia quatuordecimguttata larva by Gilles San Martin Larva of Calvia quatuordecimguttata feeding on a Psyllidae nymph (probably Cacopsylla rhamnicola) on Rhamnus catartica https://flic.kr/p/2mTmx5G

[reanimateobjects]

[drhoz]

#292 - Glycaspis Fibrous Lerps

Being tended by ants. After all, their shelters are built of crystallized honeydew.

Baldivis, Perth

[drhoz]

#285 & 286 - Eucalyptolyma Lerp (and yet another gall)

Eucalyptolyma lerps (and unrelated gall).

Lerps are the sugar shelters produced by psyllids. Psyllids are pretty much the equivalent of aphids, as far as Eucalypts go. Some of the lerps can be very intricate indeed.

Eucalyptolyma maideni has been accidental;ly introduced the US West Coast, and is having a grand old time with the eucalypts there.

Baldivis, Perth