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Lerps & bellbirds

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Subject: Lerps & bellbirds
From: "Barbara Preston" <>
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 18:10:05 +1000
Bell miners feed on the lerps, leaving the psyllids to multiply while they agressively keep their territory free of psyllid feeding small birds. Thus importance of distinction between psyllid & lerp. With large colonies of bell miners this happens to such an extent that the trees are weakened (dieback), esp if other disturbances contribute. (no wonder my pardalotes are happy - our yellow box is very lerpy, and looks a bit pathetic most of the time, but the car that gets parked under the mannifera is not so happy - or at least its owner is not, not that we want a Californian solution - maybe they should import pardalotes . . . .)
cheers
Barbara
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