WOOLLY APPLE APHID

Image:
Title: WOOLLY APPLE APHID
Description: LATIN NAME: Eriosoma lanigerum (Hausmann) LIFE CYCLE: Overwinter as adults on host limbs and roots. Live young are born in the spring and several generations are produced until fall. MONITORING: Inspect twigs, branches, wounds and splits in the bark, and roots of hosts. HOSTS: Apple, pear, hawthorn, mountain ash, cotoneaster. COMMENTS: Woolly apple aphids differ in appearance from apple mealybugs by their reddish-coloured bodies covered by a wool-like waxy material (mealybugs are yellow-orange in colour and covered by a granular waxy material). Woolly apple aphid crawlers are brown with tufts of white wax at the hind end. BODY LENGTH: Adult - 2.0 mm; Mature nymph - 1.8 mm.