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Red Gum Lerp Psyllid

Glycaspis brimblecombei

Description:

Bright green flying insect with clear wings about 5mm long. It looks like its wing is broken as you'll see in the video.

Habitat:

Landed on a paper plate outside. They're the cause of the destruction of our Red Gum Eucalyptus leaves visible at: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/715...

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1 Comment

CindyBinghamKeiser
CindyBinghamKeiser 12 years ago

The damage these insects cause can be seen on my other spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/715...

Escondido, California, USA

Spotted on Sep 7, 2011
Submitted on Sep 9, 2011

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