NOUN
- small active cicada-like insect with hind legs adapted for leaping; feeds on plant juices
How To Use psyllid In A Sentence
- The winner is a psyllid which, to the point of starvation, only eats knotweed. Times, Sunday Times
- Experimental releases of Anthocoris nemoralis F. and A. nemorum (L.) (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae) against the pear psyllid Cacopsylla pyri L. (Homoptera: Psyllidae) in pear. Contributor: Lene Sigsgaard
- Some 100,000 psyllids have been released at sites around south Florida to help the melaleuca leaf weevil, Oxyops vitiosa, combat the invasive tree, which has been taking over 14 to 15 acres of the Everglades each day.
- Growth has been severely hampered by attacks of the insect psyllid throughout Nepal Chapter 11
- The disease was discovered in Florida in 2005 and is spread by a citrus psyllid insect. OJ Futures Rise 1.6% on Florida Crop Worry
- These will be isolated and, in addition to as having the superweed present, will also have UK species that are closely related to Japanese knotweed planted there to check that the psyllid only targets the invasive species. BBC - Ouch
- Syzygium spp. and some members of the eucalypt family are prone to something called a psyllid, which shows up as a small bubble on the leaves.
- In addition, news that the Asian psyllid insect, which can carry the fatal citrus greening disease, has been found two miles from the Southern California border prompted concerns that orange and citrus production in the Golden State could be dealt a devastating blow, brokers said. Crude Falls Back After Hitting
- Carsonella lives inside a leaf-munching insect, called a psyllid (image below). Discovery of World’s Smallest Genome of Living Creatures | Impact Lab
- In heather plants (C. vulgaris) grown under enhanced UV-B radiation, populations of the psyllid Strophingia ericae were reduced.
