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The Jumping Plant Lice

THE jumping plant lice are nearly related to the tree hoppers, but they do not look at all like them. Under the magnifying glass they look like tiny cicadas.

See, here is a picture of one enlarged.

Their natural size is no larger than a plant louse.

Have you not often seen them clustered close to- gether on the young twigs of pear trees - tiny, lightcolored things that jumped in all directions when you touched the twig?

The name of the plant louse that infests pear trees is the pear-tree psylla. It is very destructive to pear trees, sucking out the juices of the young shoots.

The pear trees can be saved by spraying them with kerosene emulsion as soon as the young leaves have opened in the spring.