Woolly apple aphids have a reddish or dark purple body between 1.5 and 2.5 mm in length and the bodies are hidden under a wool-like waxy covering. At the nymph larval stage, ...

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Woolly apple aphid colonies can get large and form shaggy clumps of protective, waxy secretions. This waxy coating makes it difficult for insecticidal sprays to reach the aphids unless the ...

Alias: Woolly apple aphids are most known for giving your apple tree a furry look on the main trunks and limbs. Adult woolly apple aphids are small tear dropped shaped insects that are covered in ...

Both responded with a likely culprit: the woolly apple aphid. If so, that white stuff is waxy, filamentous flocculence created by these aphids to make a cozy, protective habitat where they can hide.

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Yoshie Tachiki of Los Angeles wrote to the SoCal Garden Clinic to ask: We have a Fuji apple tree that has a white, cotton-like substance on the limbs.

I suspect most gardeners think of roses at the mention of aphids, those little insects of various colors, typically found clustered on soft shoot tips and flower buds, sucking sugary sap from the ...