Peppertree psyllid
The peppertree psyllid is a teeny tiny bug, only about 2 millimetres long. It is orange, pale yellow or green, with wings as clear as glass. It lives on the pepper tree, and wherever people planted that tree in their gardens, the little bug came along too.
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Fun facts
The young bugs, called nymphs, make little dimples in the leaves where they feed.
When there are lots of them, the pepper tree leaves can get badly twisted and bent.
It is so small that you would need a magnifying glass to see it clearly.
Most asked questions about Peppertree psyllid
?What does the peppertree psyllid do to trees?
Its young make little pits in the leaves of pepper trees. Lots of them can make the leaves badly misshapen.
?How big is the peppertree psyllid?
Only about 2 millimetres long with its wings folded, smaller than a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Calophya schini
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Calophyidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Calophyidae
- Lives on
- North America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Calophya schini (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by S.E. Thorpe. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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