{"id":286,"date":"2015-04-19T01:13:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T01:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=286"},"modified":"2015-12-24T04:20:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T04:20:23","slug":"bactericera-maculipennis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/?page_id=286","title":{"rendered":"Bactericera maculipennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bactericera maculipennis<\/em> (Crawford)<\/p>\n<p>I have so enjoyed learning about this species.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_289\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bactericera-maculipennis-egg-Eagle-18-iv-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-289\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-289\" src=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bactericera-maculipennis-egg-Eagle-18-iv-2013-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Bactericera maculipennis egg.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bactericera maculipennis egg.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since I first found it, I have reared it in my pasture in a field cage, I have collected it first thing in the spring on the newest growth of <em>Convolvulus arvensis<\/em> (field bindweed), to collecting this psyllid outside Salt Lake City while caught in a traffic jam caused by a man-hunt for an escaped criminal.\u00a0 I love the long-stemmed eggs.<\/p>\n<p>The maculations on the wing are exactly as in the original description, which is always great to see.\u00a0 One thing I notice in the field is eggs in the apparent absence of adults.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_287\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bact-maculipennis-Eagle-30-viii-2012-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-287\" src=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bact-maculipennis-Eagle-30-viii-2012-2-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Bactericera maculipennis nymph from our house, Idaho.\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bact-maculipennis-Eagle-30-viii-2012-2-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bact-maculipennis-Eagle-30-viii-2012-2.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bactericera maculipennis nymph from southern Idaho.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The adults seem to lay eggs and move along.\u00a0 Also, the eggs seem to take quite a while to hatch and the nymphs are very dispersed on the plants and seem slow to develop.\u00a0 Nonetheless, there are at least 2 generations per year in western Idaho.\u00a0 I now have this species from Utah, Idaho, and Washington.\u00a0 I find it in the sage brush steppe habitat that has been disturbed enough to allow invasion of <em>C. arvensis<\/em>.\u00a0 More than likely the original host of this species was one of the native Convolvulaceae in western North America.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_288\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bactericera-maculipennis-Eagle-18-iv-2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288\" class=\"size-full wp-image-288\" src=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bactericera-maculipennis-Eagle-18-iv-2013.jpg\" alt=\"Bactericera maculipennis adult from our house.\" width=\"730\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bactericera-maculipennis-Eagle-18-iv-2013.jpg 730w, https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Bactericera-maculipennis-Eagle-18-iv-2013-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bactericera maculipennis adult from our former house in southern Idaho.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bactericera maculipennis (Crawford) I have so enjoyed learning about this species. Since I first found it, I have reared it in my pasture in a field cage, I have collected it first thing in the spring on the newest growth of Convolvulus arvensis (field bindweed), to collecting this psyllid outside Salt Lake City while caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":284,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-286","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/286\/revisions\/729"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aphidtrek.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}