Hackberry blister gall psyllid
Pachypsylla celtidisvesicula
The hackberry blister gall psyllid is a tiny insect from North America. It is famous for what its babies do to leaves. They make the leaves of hackberry trees grow little bumps that look like blisters.
Lives in
North America, on hackberry trees
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It is far too small to hurt you.
What does it eat?
It feeds on hackberry trees. The babies live and feed inside the blister bumps on the leaves.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Hackberry blister gall psyllid about 0.2 km/h (0.12 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its babies, called nymphs, make the leaf grow a bump around them called a gall.
2
It lives on many different kinds of hackberry trees.
3
The grown-up looks almost exactly like its cousin, the hackberry nipplegall psyllid, which is more common.
you asked
Most asked questions about Hackberry blister gall psyllid
?What are the bumps on hackberry leaves?
Some of them are galls made by the babies of this little insect. The babies live inside them.
?Is the hackberry blister gall psyllid harmful?
Not to people. It is a tiny insect that only lives on hackberry trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pachypsylla celtidisvesicula
- Group
- True bugs and cicadas
- Family
- Aphalaridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hemiptera > Aphalaridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Hackberry blistergall psyllid
Where the facts come from
- Pachypsylla celtidisvesicula (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 Memer15151. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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