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Cardiaspina spp
This dry flaky scale insect has heavily infested the tree making it appear very pale and dry. I expect this tree will die.
Lace and Basket Lerps Cardiaspina spp Note also two small brown caterpillars.
Spotted on Oct 2, 2011
Submitted on Feb 2, 2012
3 Comments
your spottings of lerps are so interesting - have learnt a lot ! - thanks
It might not die. I had a couple of gums that got totally hit by lerps twice over a few months. I thought they would die but they just dropped all their leaves and grew all new ones. It might have been different lerps though.
Lace and Basket Lerps Cardiaspina spp
http://www.fzi.uni-freiburg.de/InsectPes...