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Ball Making Bugs - Eriosoma
Copyright © 2006 Lynette Schimming

Ball Making Bugs - Eriosoma
Fort Bragg, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA
May 10, 2006
They're back. Same plant, same time of year.

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Contributed by Lynette Schimming on 11 May, 2006 - 7:43am
Last updated 17 November, 2008 - 5:42pm

Moved
Moved from Woolly apple aphid. Seems like they could just as easily be woolly elm aphids, as Lynette originally suggested.
… Charley Eiseman, 17 November, 2008 - 5:42pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Aphids.
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 June, 2007 - 5:53pm login or register to post comments

Woolly Elm Aphid?
See comparison shots and information here.
… Lynette Schimming, 11 May, 2006 - 10:16am login or register to post comments

 
Looks like
it to me.
… Donald S. Chandler, 11 May, 2006 - 11:26am login or register to post comments

Aphididae
They are aphids. I can see at least four wing veins reaching the wing margin posterior to the stigma in the winged forms. If you know the host plant, identification can be extremely rapid. Without host plant information, aphid people will be too busy to help you.
… Donald S. Chandler, 11 May, 2006 - 9:59am login or register to post comments

These are very cool!
I looked at your ones from last year and saw the tentative Psyllid ID. Do you have any wider shots of the plant? Psyllids seem to be host-specific so that might narrow it down.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 11 May, 2006 - 8:21am login or register to post comments

 
Host
Plant shot added now.
… Lynette Schimming, 11 May, 2006 - 9:43am login or register to post comments

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