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Woolly Apple Aphid
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Colony of woolly apple aphids |
Female woolly apple aphid |
Life Cycle: Overwinter as adults on host limbs and roots. Live young are born in the spring and several generations are produced until fall. No winged forms produced in B.C.
Monitoring: Inspect twigs, branches, and 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 - 2.0mm; Mature nymph - 1.8mm
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