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The 2mm honking saviour

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Psyllids are also known as ‘Jumping Plant Louse’

They communicat­e with a wide variety of songs, which include honks, croaks and burps

The variety that likes to munch on knotweed is just 2mm long, and lives beneath the slopes of a volcano in southern Japan Millions have been released into the wild at secret UK locations They only live a few weeks, but a female lays thousands of eggs After they are born, the larvae suck the sap of knotweed through their sharp mouths

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Invader: Japanese knotweed at the Chelsea Flower Show site
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