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  • Psylla buxi, emits its secretion in the shape of very long, white, cotton-like filaments.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Heterophylla cubana, Psylla acacia-baileyanae and other defoliators are common pests (Braze 1990) but do not cause serious stress problems.

    Chapter 8 1996

  • Heterophylla cubana, Psylla acacia-baileyanae and other defoliators are common pests (Braze 1990) but do not cause serious stress problems.

    Chapter 10 1996

  • Heterophylla cabana, Psylla acacia-baileyanae and other defoliators are common pests (Braze 1990) but do not cause serious stress problems.

    Chapter 5 1990

  • Professor Riley the 'Bramble-Flea-louse (_Psylla rubi_ [Footnote: "It can not be distinguished from _Psylla tripunctata_, Fitch (Catalogue of Homoptera, etc.), and, what is most singular, the same species is very common on pine-trees all over the eastern part of the continent, from Florida to Canada."]),' in the American Entomologist (Vol. I., p. 225).

    Success with Small Fruits Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • “The insect (and its secretion) on the leaves of the bauhinia, and which is eaten by the Africans, proves to be a species of Psylla, a genus of small, very active Homoptera, of which we have one very common species in the box; but our species,

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

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