a sweet-tasting edible secretion produced on the leaves of certain plants in Australia, esp eucalypts, by the larvaeof jumping plant lice
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Ecological niche of gall-forming, lerp-forming and free-living psyllid species did not impact endosymbiont communities.
Jennifer L. Morrow, Aidan A. G. Hall, Markus Riegler 2017, 'Symbionts in waiting: the dynamics of incipient endosymbiont complementation and replacementin minimal bacterial communities of psyllids', Microbiomehttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-017-0276-4. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
House flies were not attracted to field-collected samples of lerp psyllids on eucalyptus plants or aphids on crepe myrtle leaves.
Kim Y. Hung, Themis J. Michailides, Jocelyn G. Millar, Astri Wayadande, Alec C. Gerry 2015, 'House Fly (Musca domestica L.) Attraction to Insect Honeydew', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0124746. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Lerp mutants have normal viability and fertility and display no overt phenotypes other than reduced body weight.
Medina Hasanagic, Eline van Meel, Shan Luan, Rajeev Aurora, Stuart Kornfeld, JoelC. Eissenberg 2015, 'The lysosomal enzyme receptor protein (LERP) is not essential, but is implicated inlysosomal function in Drosophila melanogaster', Biology Openhttp://bio.biologists.org/content/4/10/1316. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)