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Hackberry Nipple Galls caused by Pachypsylla celtides-mamma. Home of the
This tree is heavily infested with gall inducing scale
An unopen psyllid gall (pic #1) and an ...
This damp spring morning the psyllid larvae ...
Mating spotted ladybirds were seen on the same leaf as
that had been popped to release little winged adult sap sucking
structure of crystallized honeydew produced by larvae of
This snowy white clam lerp contained the nymph of a
A small white fluffy structure. This is possibly a lerp containing a
A white parasitic larvae ( wasp?) replacing the owner of a green gum gall, ...
Bright green flying insect with clear wings ...
Brown pyramid mound shaped organism
Numerous small pale green bubble-like galls (2mm wide) on the upper surface of ...
acids which crystallises on contact with air.
tight cluster of extremely wholly insects, ...
A congregation of tiny insects with ...
tiny yellow insects were roaming around ...
Numerous tiny swellings on this leaf reveal an infestation by
Dark scales looking like seashells covering a tiny
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small orange psyllid trying to hide itself ...
A small insect about 10mm long, all orange ...
This series shows a few different stages of this
nymphs of psyllids of the Cardiaspina ...
Small, brown, empty cocoon. There were
Small sap sucking psyllid bug attempting to ...
A minute scale insect densely covering the ...
Numerous lerps including eggs, shells, nymphs and winged adults.
A colony of clam lerps built close to each other and overlapping, making a ...
These are scale insect galls seen on the ...
A small (5mm) conical sugary crystalline structure with an exit hole on one ...
Gall forming scale insects produce ...
I saw maybe 4 or 5 of these around the beach sunflower plant.
forming bug seen in pic #2. The pic #4 shows two different aged lerp
A white mound of woven waxy material secreted by the nymph of a
A small square shaped lerp on the upper side of a gum (eucalyptus) leaf. It had ...
A lerp which is slightly different yet again to the others in the genus ...