Recap 02/27/14

• Hackberry petiole gall psyllid
• polythalmous
• separate compartments
• several developing in each compartment
• as many as 13 per gall
• develop through summer and over winter
• heavily infested trees are recognizable through the winter by the presence of dead leaves
• infested leaves do not fall off

 

 

• the adult resembles a small cicada
• have piercing sucking mouth parts
• phloem feeders
• sap feeders

Photo from http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/trees/hackberry_psyllid.htm

 

• Spider cocoon with eggs 

 

• Leaf hopper
• Salamander

 

• Geode

 

• 1st year female pinecone
• Leaf skeleton

 

• Coal

• Sycamore seed pods
• Big leaf magnolia buds 

 

• Beech leaves
• Beech keeps track of the length of the day, which then signals the leaf to drop