With the spring and onset of summer comes the return of the lerp psyllid insect to Rancho Santa Fe’s trees, an insect that eats up red gum eucalyptus foliage and leaves behind a big mess. The weather ...

They live in a lerp. They wreck paint jobs on cars. And they kill eucalyptus trees. The Red Gum lerp psyllid, first found in Merced County in 1998, has established itself as a major pest for the tens ...

SAN DIEGO — Residents of Scripps Ranch are growing increasingly concerned about the presence of lerp, a protective cover produced by larvae of Psyllid bugs, on Eucalyptus trees in the area. Lerp ...

It may sound like a character out of Dr. Seuss, but the red gum lerp psyllid is costing the city of Los Angeles real money. Facing huge liability risks, the city has embarked on a $2.3-million effort ...

The seven-year war against a sap-sucking insect that has ravaged eucalyptus trees in California has shifted to one of its cousins, the lemon gum psyllid, which forced Placentia this week to cut down ...